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By Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform

People who were adopted, birth parents react to change in Minnesota birth records policy

People who were adopted, birth parents react to change in Minnesota birth records policy

Mary Jo Lindeberg is 81, but she has never, never stopped wondering: Who is she, really?

She was born in St. Paul, just weeks after Pearl Harbor. She was adopted by an oral surgeon and his office nurse. They changed her name from Carol Louise to Mary Jo, and raised her as their own.

And for most of a century, she’s carried unanswered questions.

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Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform is a non-partisan, all-volunteer group of individuals that have worked to reform Minnesota law so that adult adoptees will have access to their own original birth certificates.

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