Something else.

There are more than 50,000 Guatemalan adoptees living all over the world,

but it's not often we find ourselves in the same room until one weekend in March 2022 on a Saturday morning at 8 a.m.

I was just barely awake, but I was getting ready to walk into just that.

Fifth floor.

Going down.

Okay, how fun.

I'll see you all that.

That's me and one of my producers, India Whitkin.

India and I traveled to an annual meetup of Guatemalan adoptees.

It was organized by this group called Adoptees with Guatemalan Roots.

They started doing these meetups in 2019.

And I had always been pretty ambivalent about going into something like this,

which is why it hadn't been before. Okay, I found it I'm about to walk in the adoptees in the room

were from all different parts of Guatemala I believe the youngest was 17 and the

oldest was in their 40s there are people people from all over, just outside D.C. to folks from Kentucky, North Carolina, and Canada.

It seemed like everyone knew each other, the way they kind of broke off and chatted amongst themselves in a circle.

It was pretty obvious it was my first time.

Everyone else was wearing T-shirts and jeans, and me, I wore a fucking suit.

Adopties with Guatemalan roots was founded by five Guatemalan adoptees from the U.S. just three years ago.

As one of a handful of organizations built by and four adoptees, they've helped adoptees access

documents like birth certificates or find their birth families. They even met with the president

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