Family Secrets: A Takeaway Listener’s Story

The Takeaway

Last week, we talked with Madeleine Albright about her life, and her discovery in adulthood that she was Jewish.  We asked our listeners: have you ever discovered a secret about your family or identity? We received a lot of responses, including one from  Loren Levinson.  She was adopted when she was a baby and raised her whole life in a Jewish household. But when she tracked down her birth parents as an adult, she discovered that her paternal ancestry was Muslim and that her birth mother is a born-again Christian.

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