Defining Diego 7. What's On Paper

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Nov 14, 202247:27Science & Medicine

It’s 2022, and Diego has a mission: to reclaim his Guatemalan citizenship. But on the ground in Guatemala City, he finds that his identity as an adoptee is still complicated, even 23 years later. Diego asks his birth mot...

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