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I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.
Andrea Barrett
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Andrea Barrett
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 6
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
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