In this episode, Amanda shares the shocking moment in her early 20s that she discovered she was adopted, how her lone-wolf mother“ loved to party," what meeting her birth mother in a coffee shop felt like, why the smell of gasoline reminds her of her childhood, and how spending time with her own young daughter Lola is the most time she has ever spent with someone she is biologically related to.

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