Jillian Barberie
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I'd find a way.
Well, I think at first they probably weren't thrilled.
I think they, I was like, look, I just want to know my ethnicity for fuck's sakes.
I don't know if I'm Italian, Jewish.
I don't know if I'm, I don't know anything.
So, you know, and you go through life and people have their ideas of what you might be.
And even for illnesses, I had no idea if breast cancer ran in the family.
Everything was not applicable.
I, so...
You know, for that reason alone.
But I think they were a little more like, hmm, maybe you should let things lie where they are and not necessarily, you know.
Had they had correspondence with your biological parents?
No, no.
This was the 60s.
Very different.
Like, yeah, it was all government closed.
And I remember my mother saying, well, but this was the woman who adopted me.
This is a closed adoption.
There is no way you'll be able to.
I was like, oh, no.