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Laney at age 12 with the nanny who handed her to her mom at her former orphanage, August 1994
For Julie Hollek, who was 8 months old when white parents in Michigan adopted her from South Korea, her relationship to her birth country is “tenuous” at best, she said. Raised as a Catholic in a white neighborhood, she grew up speaking only English, knowing little about Korean culture, and going to school with kids who didn’t look like her.
Over the last year, as the coronavirus pandemic engendered a surge of hate crimes against people of Asian descent, Hollek spent much of her time in lockdown reflecting on an ethnic identity that had felt distant but now suddenly seemed to be under attack.
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