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Welcome to the series that hears from people who've experienced something which shifts everything.

Often it's the bookends of life, birth and death which shape the way we see the world,

who we're born to, who we lose, and where that fits in our understanding of ourselves. So it is for Sue Chantry, an adopted baby who

searched for her birth mother had an unexpected ending. Sue's here. Hello. Hello, Sean. How are

you? I'm fine, thank you. Good. Take us to your childhood and growing up in High Wycombe in the Chilton Hills. When did you first know that you were adopted? What were you told? I was told very early on that I was special. I was chosen, and that I was adopted.

So I was always very proud of my adopted status,

not really understanding what that meant as a young girl.

How did you interpret that phrase you've been chosen when you were growing up?

At the time, being grateful for that, I was chosen.

And I suppose the dichotomy of that is that I was chosen and plucked

away. Why was I chosen? Was it because I was bad? Because something bad had happened and not

understanding and not being given the full context of my birth background. It was just I was special,

chosen six weeks old.

So really didn't think any deeper than that, really.

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