Srey Powers was adopted from Cambodia when she was six years old. Here she meets children in the northern village where her birth sister lives.
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U.S. adoptee Srey Powers traveled to Cambodia in 2010 to find her birth family. Powers: "Here I'm seeing a picture of my mother for the first time."
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Powers: "This is the only photo that exists of me as a child."
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Powers and her U.S. mother traveled first to the orphanage where she was adopted, pictured above.
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"The early search for my family, many hours on the roads and searching villages."
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"Hugging my grandmother for the first time since I was six."
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Powers: "Listening to our translator as I learn I would never meet my birth mother - she had died."
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Powers: "One of only two surviving photos of my birth mother, on the right."
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Powers' U.S. mother, Claudia. "Watching my mother's attempt to put my (grandmother) at ease, I was struck by how different my life would have been if she had not adopted me."
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Powers with her Cambodian family. "The women are my mother's sisters."
