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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing

Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.

More Than a Foodie
Emily Emily

More Than a Foodie

Before I came to college, being β€œadopted” was just a trait, just like how some people are born with curly hair or a crooked nose.

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