261 – Born Without A Race

Santo, from Redding, PA, grew up knowing he was adopted, and that his family could have also adopted his siblings from Italy.

 Sean from, Fishers, Indiana, grew up the only person of color in his entire rural town. Yet his ethnicity was hidden from him by his adoptive mother. In Reunion, Sean finally met his birth mother, but realized he needed to establish a special boundary with her to protect his adopted children.

Lacking mirroring all his life, Sean finally heard one of his paternal relatives say, he looks just like someone special in their family.

Sean’s book is called Born Without a Race.

This is Sean’s journey.

 Santo and his team made a documentary about his life is called Il Mio Posto a Tavola, or My Place at the Table where he uncovers research about his thread in the mosaic of European children adopted into the United States. This is Santo’s journey.