Missing Pieces - NPE Life

In this Season 1 finale episode our very own extremely talented Cory Goodrich writes a song with Don. The song is called Hey Dad.  Don gave her a challenge to write a song that would leave a message on her bio-dad's answering machine. (She has an outgoing answering machine message of his, the only audio of his voice that she has) It's a special episode.) The song, which is in the episode...

Finding Bio Father - Found Recordings On this episode we have two segments, each featuring old forgotten footage of a couple of bio-dads. We explore what it means to the NPEs to have these found treasures.  Segment 1 features a cassette tape from 1974, where a bio-father plays Santa Claus. Segment 2 the only video or audio of my Bio-Father that exists is one of him in a melodrama. Brothers in Arms...

This episode is a recorded phone call by an NPE to his mom. Jeff Frame, a documentary filmmaker, found out 8 years ago that the abusive father he thought was his dad, wasn't. A day and a half later, he called his mom to confront her. This is that call.  No edits, just the straight phone call. It's raw, it's emotional and maybe triggering for some people. I am not a therapist by any...

In this episode I read an email exchange between me and this woman who hates NPEs and NPE podcasts. And I think it comes out funny. You be the judge.  It really dumbfounds me how nasty and mean people can be and then have absolutely zero ability to see themselves.  So sit back, put on your seatbelt and get ready to hate someone. Or maybe agree with someone.

In this episode T discusses how she came to find out who her bio dad was. And for the first time ever on Missing Pieces, we get to hear the story from the Bio-Father as well.  

Part 2 of Two Sisters Together. The heartfelt story continues and we find out what came after the NPE discovery.

This episode is about two sisters who grew up together.  One of them is the NPE and the other is along for the ride. A ride with a few twists and turns.  You don't want to miss this one.

This is part 2 of Switched at Birth. Shirley Munoz Newson found out in 2001 that she was switched at birth with another baby in 1958. She has a book coming out in January called "The Little Dark One - A True Story of Switched at Birth" Shirley in on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shirleymunoznewson_author/

Shirley Munoz Newson found out in 2001 that she was switched at birth in 1958. This is the first time she has spoken in public about it. Ever!

In this week's episode 4 Pillars of our community meet in a virtual meeting to answer 4 questions regarding their NPE journey. We have Lily Wood, Eve Sturges, Erin Cosentino and Gina Daniel. They share openly about where their lives are now what it's like coming to grips with being an NPE years after discovery. Don Anderson Easy Tiger Creative Eve Sturges Everything's Relative with...

In Episode 3 we hear the story of Jackie and Shannon, an NPE and an Adoptee - half-sisters who find each other on 23 and me. They work together to solve the mystery of who their parents are.

“It’s like another piece of Grandpa is in the world — like he’s not gone.” In Episode 2 of Missing Pieces: NPE Life , host Don Anderson tells the story of discovering he’s an NPE — but not in the usual way. Instead of narrating it himself, Don steps back and lets his four newly discovered half-sisters tell the story from their perspective: what it was like growing up for them and what it meant to...

When Kaye found out she was an NPE, that the man on her birth certificate wasn't her father, it gave new clues to a unsolved murder that has plagued her family for over 50 years. Though the tone NPE Life will vary with each episode this first one fits into the True Crime genre. 

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