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Independent Lens | SUNSHINE | Film Clip #3 | PBS

Duration: 02:20
Program: Independent Lens #1123

"Maybe there are some things that we can't just leave in the past."

Has your life ever taken an unexpected detour? Director Karen Skloss reunites with her biological mother to tell a personal story about adoption, life as a single mother, while grappling with the definition of family. Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, Skloss struggles with the incredible ironies that history repeated itself and that efforts to protect family can sometimes do the most harm.

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Post Date: May 3, 2010