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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck and this is short stuff.

So let's stop wasting time and begin speaking now.

Yes, we are going to talk about adoption, birth certificate access.

Where did we get this?

Where did we get some of this from?

I believe we found out in a house that works but they were published it from the conversation

that we're working largely from an article by Andrea Ross.

Right.

This is all about the thorny matter of whether or not, not really whether or not, but

the idea that a grown up or maybe sometimes not even grown up adopted person might want

to gain access to their original birth certificate.

And in many states in the United States, those are sealed and you are not allowed to unless

you jump through a lot of hoops.

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