24 Years in the Making

Defining Diego

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Documentary

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted — and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laurie Stern.
0:02.0	I'm Diego Shikai Luke.
0:04.0	I'm your mom, but I didn't give birth to you.
0:06.0	Nope. Isabel did in 1998.
0:09.0	She's an indigenous Maya woman.
0:12.0	You and Dan adopted me from Guatemala.
0:14.0	When you were just five months old.
0:16.0	Yay!
0:17.0	You gotta meet Diego.
0:20.0	But now you're going to meet Diego.
0:24.6	But now you're 23, a man. I've grown up knowing that I come from Santiago at Teatlan, a Mayan village.
0:28.6	I've also had a pretty regular American childhood, playing hockey, eating pizza, going to school.
0:35.6	But I've always had questions.
0:38.3	I've wondered who I am.
0:39.3	Really?
0:41.3	Am I American?
0:42.3	Am I Guatemalan?
0:43.3	Mayan?
0:44.3	Why do I have to pick?
0:46.3	What if I'd stayed in Guatemala?
0:49.3	And I've never met my birth father?
0:52.3	And what are your feelings about it?
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