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Defining Diego

Defining Diego | 7. What's On Paper

Defining Diego

Sony Music

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

4.6550 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2022, and Diego has a mission: to reclaim his Guatemalan citizenship. But on the ground in Guatemala City, he finds that his identity as an adoptee is still complicated, even 23 years later. Diego asks his birth mother if he can meet his birth father, Cristobal — but it’s unclear if that will actually happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously on All Relative, Defining Diego.

0:12.0

So that must be very hard for you to feel like you have a family in Minnesota, but you also have a family here.

0:19.0

Not that R.

0:24.1

D-E-L-I-C-I-S-A-S.

0:25.0

No, it's too short.

0:26.2

That would be delisas.

0:28.4

You want to say delisiosa.

0:32.1

We just need another week. There's just some paperwork problems.

0:34.5

The lawyer tells me everything's going to be fine.

0:36.8

And then, you know, a week would go by and it wouldn't be any different.

0:40.3

Okay, that is your birth father.

0:44.3

Is it more complication than he can deal with, you know? Is it more complication than he can deal with, you know?

0:57.0

Is it more complication than he should be dealing with?

1:01.0

What do you think?

1:03.0

I think it probably is.

1:05.0

And I think it's one of the consequences of coming back here.

1:10.0

So, Diego, this was from back in 2008.

1:15.0

You were 10, and we were visiting your birth village with some other adoptive families. And,

1:21.4

you know, Dan and I haven't always agreed on whether visiting your birth village is a good idea.

1:26.9

I think the more information you

1:28.4

have about your roots, the better. Yeah, but dad's a worrier. Besides being a lot of family stuff

1:35.8

to dump on them, the truth is, is that all of our kids, all of our kids that were born in

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