Ready to Talk
On a cold day in 2017, Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick was about to crawl into bed when she got a Facebook message: “You contacted me a long time ago? Are you still interested in talking with me? If so, my family and I are interested.” As a journalist, Demick reached out to hundreds of people over the years.
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She was also in the aftermath of covering the inauguration, and she was exhausted. She couldn’t remember who this person was, nor did she particularly want to at this exact moment. But then another message popped up. “My mom adopted a little Chinese girl years ago,” he continued. “It appears she has a twin sister still in China.”