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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Adopted Persons' Search for and Contact with Their Birth Parents II

Adoptee-Birth Parent Contact

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Pages 39-62 | Received 09 Nov 1999, Accepted 20 Mar 2000, Published online: 11 Oct 2008

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