Nothing personal
by Natalie K
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Chapter 21-How was it to knock on those doors?
Chapter 21-How was it to knock on those doors?
About this podcast
My name is Natalie and today I am here to tell you the story about the search for my identity.
When people who are close or not so close to me, find out that I am adopted and that a documentary has been filmed since I actively began to search for my roots, what always follows is a series of questions. I have been answering these questions for years. Now that we finished filming the documentary I decided to make this podcast answering each one of them. Each episode is an answer to a question.
Episodes
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- Chapter 21-How was it to knock on those doors? · 12 minIn May 2018, thanks to Paola Klechman and Lorena Quiroga — who, like me, had their identities substituted and sold by Doctor Bartucca — I arrived at the doors of the Human Rights…
- Chapter 20-Why can't you feel all the love around you? · 19 min“What happened was a long time ago, Natalie. You’re the one who won’t let go of the past.” How I wish I could. Just let the past go. Be free, live in the here and now. My whole…
- Chapter 19-Did you ever reach out to the adoption contacts? · 19 minReaching out directly to the source of information about my illegal adoption would have probably been the most logical and sensible thing to do in this entire search. After all…
- Chapter 18-How did your partner handle the search? · 19 minRomantic relationships are a reflection of the attachment model with which we relate to others. As I mentioned before, this model is based on how our parents, or those who raised…
- Chapter 17-Can the trauma of adoption worsen or diminish depending on the adopting family? · 23 minThe family that adopts us is our world. In that world, we live, we breathe, and we grow. They are our reference, our starting point, our home. There's no way that whatever our…
- Chapter 16-Who is Mercedes, the liberator of slaves? Part2 · 16 minMercedes, like most of the people I crossed paths with in my search, with a couple of exceptions, initially treated me with a bit of distrust and distance. Almost as if she had…
- Chapter 15-Who is Mercedes, the liberator of slaves? part1 · 30 minThe DNA result of The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo was negative, and as the judge in charge of my case said: “This case is closed now”. Even though Claudia Carlotto told me that…
- Chapter 14-Who are the "Bartuquitas"? · 29 minBy 2016, the search had taken me to Dr. Bartucca, to the trafficking of babies, to the social consensus that makes everything possible, to the tyrannical reality that decides the…
- Chapter 13-Why the search, if you already have a family? · 16 min“Identity is a right Naty” “The truth about your origin is your right Natalie” From the outside it is so obvious, so clear. Especially for everyone who grew up knowing their…
- Chapter 12-Who is Dr Bartucca and his henchmen? · 13 min“Your birth certificate is fake”, “your adoption is illegal”, “if they ask you at school, your mother is from Argentina”. Since I was a little girl, they told me that I was…
- Chapter 11-Who is Martin, the unwitting hero? Part2 · 16 minAfter seven years of not having any contact, we got in touch again thanks to social networks. He appeared on Facebook one day and we became friends there. At that time…
- Chapter 10-Who is Martin, the unwitting hero? · 14 minOne of the things that I never get tired of repeating is that , if there is something I have learned over time, it is that in life, things are not black and white, people are not…
- Chapter 9-Don't let this define your life, try to live instead (don't be sad) · 14 minSince I first found out I was adopted, around the age of 5 or 6 years, every time the subject is brought up in any possible situation, what follows directly after is some kind of…
- Chapter 8-The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo part3 · 15 minYears passed and as I have said in previous episodes, when my mother died in 2013 and after hearing that one of her last wishes was for me to find my truth, always thinking that…
- Chapter 7-The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo part 2 · 16 minThe day I went to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo my legs were shaking. I went there with a friend who held me the last few meters to the door of the building. I made my…
- Chapter 6-The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo part 1 · 13 minI grew up in a German middle class family in an area that’s called Martinez, San Isidro, Buenos Aires. Those who are from Buenos Aires know exactly what that means, but for those…
- Chapter 5-How is the relationship with your family? · 19 minThe relationship with my family was, in general, difficult. The relationship with my family during my search was particularly difficult. At my age, I have understood that we all…
- Chapter 4-Loneliness and codependency · 16 minI have always felt an immense loneliness.The feeling that my life is a mistake and that I should never have been born has haunted me from a young age. I remember that sometimes…
- Chapter 3-Did you find something? · 8 minIn order to find something, you must first understand what you are looking for. And I don't think I understood what I was looking for until I actually began knocking on doors…
- Chapter 2-Why a documentary? · 10 minIn order to answer that, it is necessary to start by explaining what happened in 2015. After getting the call from the Argentine Embassy that the Argentine Foreign Ministry was…
