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A panel from Meg O’Shea’s A Part of Me is Still Unknown. The narrator, in silhouette, stands backlit in a doorway surrounded by darkness

A Part of Me is Still Unknown

Meg O'Shea, The Nib, January 2018

I had begun to take on some of that stereotypical adoptee narrative I had always tried so hard to avoid. I now accepted Korea as part of me…because my birth mum was part of me. And that meant a part of me was unknown.

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