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[Adoption Statements of Lilly Morris, Barb Morris, and Jean Morris] (open access)

[Adoption Statements of Lilly Morris, Barb Morris, and Jean Morris]

Personal statements of Lily, Barb, and Jean Morris regarding the adoption of Lily from Guangxi Province, China. Lily shares her adoption story, feelings about her trips to China, and details about her life and interests. Barb shares her joy over raising Lily and her feelings on adoptions, and Jean discusses her feelings on being an aunt to Lily. There is a photo of Lily on the last page of the document.
Date: 2015~
Creator: Morris, Lily; Morris, Barb & Morris, Jean
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History with Sarah Heath and Celena Kopinski] transcript

[Oral History with Sarah Heath and Celena Kopinski]

Oral History with Sarah Heath and Celena Kopinski regarding their adoption from the Changzhou CWI in Jiangsu Province, China. They discuss how they connected over Facebook which lead to them discovering they were twins who had been adopted separately. Both Sarah and Celena offer their thoughts on the process of discovering they were twins and the shock of finding each other after accepting that it was likely they would never know their biological family. They discuss their respective childhoods, adoption stories, and their respective trips to China to learn more about their origins.
Date: unknown
Creator: Heath, Sarah & Kopinski, Celena
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History