Defining Diego | 2. Where I'm From

Defining Diego

Sony Music

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

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Laurie takes three-year-old Diego back to Guatemala for the first time since his adoption. While Diego bonds with his birth mother Isabel, Laurie starts talking with birth mothers all over the country. Many are young, live in poverty, or are survivors of the Guatemalan civil war. Despite how much adoption costs for families in the U.S., Laurie begins to realize how little birth mothers receive in exchange. Meanwhile, Diego is growing up as an indigenous Mayan kid in St. Paul, Minnesota — loving hockey, hating Spanish lessons, and navigating what it means to have family in two places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on all relative, defining Diego.
0:12.2	I'm taking the little boy that was born to you six months ago.
0:25.6	If you look at the reason that Guatemala's international adoptions were so chaotic, it has everything to do with the law and with U.S. actors as well.
0:28.6	You're fucking...
0:29.6	Tigito!
0:30.6	...aigito!
0:31.6	This is...
0:33.6	This is Mabel.
0:36.6	...this is Mabel. This is Mabel. That's me when I was five.
0:39.3	During a Mites hockey game. That's me when I was five, during a Mighty Mites hockey game.
0:58.0	Yeah, it's not easy to talk to your mouth guard.
1:01.0	But you went around all right?
1:04.0	You went around?
1:06.0	Yeah, that was cool.
1:08.0	You did some cool moves out there.
1:10.0	My dad got me skates when I was two, and he's my biggest fan.
1:15.2	We're doing better than the bat team.
1:17.5	Yeah, you are.
1:21.8	You both still come to my games.
1:24.1	We didn't start out as hockey parents.
1:26.8	We put you in a lot of things.
1:28.5	Piano lessons, gymnastics, swimming, but nothing took like hockey.
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