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And we're back with our American stories.

Up next, you're going to hear from Tracy Yugally.

He's telling the story of her adoption and the 46-year-long journey of searching for her sisters who were adopted by different families.

Here's Tracy with her story.

I had mom and dad, and they had a son and a daughter and my brother was almost 20 years

older than me.

Then I had a sister named Mary and she was 15 years older than me.

So I was kind of the only one in the house with mom and dad.

And a lot of people think my life sounds like something you would have on Oprah or have on a talk show.

But honestly, my life was very, very low key and chill.

Every day my dad came in from work and my mom had supper on the

table and she washed the dishes and I dried them and we watched TV at night and

got up in the mornings and my mom made breakfast and you know it was just very normal. Of course, I never knew I was adopted. I was adopted sometime

before I was a year old and my parents treated the word adoption like a bad word. So we never said the A word at our house. And so therefore,

I didn't even know. A neighbor's child told me I was adopted and I was like in the fourth

grade and I didn't even know what that meant. She set me down. She kind of walked back and forth

in front of me and she was like, okay, so you know your parents?

Well, they're not your real parents.

They adopted you.

And of course, it was a little scary and it was sad.

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