Identical Strangers

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City and adopted as infants. When they were 35 years old, they met and found they were “identical strangers.”

This story originally aired on NPR in 2007.

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0:00.0	Last day is a show about the moments that change us.
0:03.0	I just don't think I will ever get used to this.
0:06.0	I'm Stephanie Little's Wax, and I have had one of these moments.
0:10.0	We all have.
0:11.0	So let's unpack the chaos that is our human existence together.
0:14.0	I don't believe things happen for a reason.
0:16.0	I don't believe the universe has a plan.
0:18.0	Each week, I sit down with a new guest
0:20.0	to explore happy, sad stories of transformation.
0:23.0	It's leaning far, far into the pain.
0:26.0	That's what it is.
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0:42.0	It's an old debate.
0:43.0	What is it that makes us, us?
0:46.0	Our DNA or our life experiences.
0:49.0	Genes or environment.
0:51.0	Nature versus nurture.
0:53.0	I spent most of my life in the nurture camp.
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