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My Russian side : in my own words - me tracking down my birth parents then meeting them in Russia for the first time in my life

Follows the story of Alex Gilbert when he travels to Russia to meet his Birth Parents for the first time. Alex was followed on a New Zealand TV Documentary in 2013 while he was doing the search on his Birth Parents. He was adopted out of Russia at 2 years old and brought to NZ. Without any knowledge on who his Birth Parents are Alex decides to do a search on them 20 years later. He manages to find them using social media with the only information on them were their names on paper. He travels to Russia late 2013 to meet them for the first time in his entire life

Print Book, English, 2014
Alex Gilbert, [New Zealand], 2014