Defining Diego | 6. Resist and Release

Defining Diego

Sony Music

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

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We hear from a family whose adoption was in-progress when the Guatemalan government shut everything down. A few years after his fateful diagnosis, Diego is a surly teenager. The family’s figuring out a way forward. Laurie takes Diego back to Guatemala, where he learns about the meanings behind his birth names — Xicay and Petzey. Diego asks Isabel more questions about his birth father, Cristobal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on all relative, defining Diego.
0:13.0	It was really the most miserable four years of my life, and I would never wish it on anybody.
0:19.4	I would like to have just died in my hometown like
0:24.6	Julian. You'd rather be dead? I know I should be able to say it was a terrible thing that
0:29.4	international adoption was closed or it was a wonderful thing. It is a little bit unclear. The system was
0:34.9	horrific. It was just free market.
0:38.1	It's the best example of free market of children that I know of.
0:46.0	The reason I call the Stanley meeting, I have two agenda items.
0:53.6	One is the trip to Guatemala and two is I want to help you achieve your goals or something like that.
1:03.2	Remember family meetings?
1:04.8	Yeah, we didn't have them very often.
1:07.1	It was usually when I was in trouble.
1:09.2	Yeah, I think I usually called them, but this one,
1:12.4	Dan called. We were sitting at the kitchen table, and the part about achieving your goals,
1:18.8	I think he was trying to get you to take school more seriously. Yeah, and he was trying to get you
1:24.2	not to run away from our problems. You had bought a ticket out of St. Paul,
1:29.0	out of our family. Yeah, because we were fighting all the time, and I just wanted to escape.
1:35.2	So I was headed to Guatemala. You guys were going to come visit at the holidays, and Dan was telling
1:41.2	us why he thought the whole thing was a bad idea. Because I feel like we've got all this stuff to work on.
1:48.1	And by doing this, you're just sort of, you know, taking a pass on it.
1:54.6	Like a big timeout.
1:57.1	I'm not going to, like, say, oh, let's cancel the tickets or let's not go down there.
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