'Part Of My DNA': An Adopted Woman Learns Of Her Birth Mother's Resilience
At StoryCorps, a woman and her half brother reflect on their mother, the pain she experienced in her life and the secret she kept from her children.
Lisa Bouler Daniels, 52, grew up knowing she was adopted. Seven years ago, she began searching for her birth family.
By the time she found them, her birth mother had died. So had her adoptive mother.
She tracked down her half brother, Benjamin Chambers, and showed up at his church in the Chicago suburbs.
"I kinda ambushed
