Defining Diego | 1. My Two Mothers

Defining Diego

Sony Music

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

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1999, and reporter Laurie Stern wants to adopt a child with her husband. At the time, international adoption seems pretty straightforward — Laurie wants a baby, and there are babies who need parents. But once she arrives in Guatemala City to meet a five-month old boy named Diego, she realizes that nothing about adopting a baby from Guatemala is that simple. 23 years later, Diego’s an adult, and he has questions of his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:04.0	My name is Diego Shikailuk, and this is me when I was 10 years old.
0:17.0	My dad and I were making a video.
0:20.0	My name is Diego, but I'm from the Sutsu'il tribe, so they would call me Atuko.
0:26.6	I had just learned another one of my names, Atiko. That means Diego in Sutuhil, a Maya language.
0:35.6	In the video, there's a huge lake behind me.
0:39.3	This is where I was born in a Mayan village called Santiago Atalan, on the shores of Lake
0:46.3	Atitlan in Guatemala.
0:48.3	But it's not where I was raised.
0:51.3	In 1999, when I was a baby, I was adopted by a white American couple in Minnesota.
0:59.6	In a lot of ways, this is the story of me growing up.
1:04.2	Like, spell me a word, and I'll see if I can guess what it is.
1:09.6	Sack.
1:10.9	Sack. Yes. Come Sock. Sock.
1:11.7	Yes.
1:13.1	Come most three
1:14.0	uevos with pan toastero.
1:16.3	And be best...
1:18.2	Eighth grade, but I think if I can finish this year strong,
1:22.1	greater than I have ever done, I'll be set for ninth grade.
1:31.6	Unlike most adoptees, I know a lot about where I come from and who my birth family is, partly because of these recordings. And that's because of one
1:37.8	person especially. Yeah, that's me. I'm Lori Diego's mom, and I'm a reporter.
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