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Snap Judgment

Pt 1: The Search for No Name Aporva - Snap Classic

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Storytelling, Performing Arts, Music, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Snap, Society & Culture/documentary, Personal Journals, Arts/performing Arts, Arts

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When 14-year-old Annaporva finally decides to ask her mother about her biological family a story so unexpected unravels – there’s kingpins, death threats, and Maneka Gandhi.

A HUGE thank you to Danielle and Annaporva Green for sharing your story with Snap. For more stories from Danielle, check out her book, A Magnificent Obsession.

Produced by Nancy López, original score by Renzo Gorrio

Be sure to listen to next week’s Snap episode to hear Part Two of this story.

Snap Classic - Season 14 Episode 2

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Transcript

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Snap Judgment Studios

0:25.0

Okay, so I live on a street with a lot of families

0:29.0

Children, some of the mommies and the daddies

0:32.0

they look just like their kids

0:35.0

Others do not

0:37.0

And in the middle of this urban hum

0:40.0

Common question is something like

0:42.0

How do you build your family?

0:46.0

And my answer, it's pretty simple

0:48.0

It's even traditional

0:50.0

We wanted some kids, so we had a couple

0:55.0

But other people just on our block

0:58.0

whose children play with my own

1:01.0

They endured a much more torturous road

1:04.0

Before they could push the stroll

1:06.0

Before they could join the family carpool

1:08.0

Bring birthday cupcake to the PTA meeting

1:12.0

And today on Snap Judgment

1:14.0

We're following the story of one family

1:17.0

And how the very thing

1:19.0

Which so many of us take for granted

1:21.0

Can be the hardest fight of their lives

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