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It’s always disconcerting to say the least, to be confronted with one’s absence of medical information and lack of relationship with one’s family of origin and ancestors. I’m lucky in that neither of my two children (21 and 17, girl, boy) have no chronic medical issues, but what makes it even worse for my kids is that their father is also adopted, and is white, and U.S.-born, but he was in contact with his birth mother his whole life. She died a few years ago, more or less of alcoholism. So my children do have access to their paternal-maternal line, but not the other lines. Their father never found out who his father was.
I do have paper health records from Korea from about age nine months to thirteen months—which shots and so forth I received—and a couple general updates on my measurements and eating habits. There’s nothing about them that...