‘After 38 years, I finally met my biological mother…I was almost unable to breathe’: from Zurich to Mumbai via Pune, an adopted daughter’s search for her roots

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Adoptee's stories

Her adoptive family had provided her with a stable home and was supportive, yet Natasha sensed their hesitation when she began searching for her biological roots.

Natasha, a 38-year-old logistics specialist living in Zurich, Switzerland, carried a quiet longing in her heart for most of her life. Born in 1987 and left at an adoption home 11 days later, she was adopted by a Swiss couple before she turned one. As she grew up in Zurich alongside an adopted sister from Africa, her childhood was a blend of school, friends, and routine days—but also marked by challenges.

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