Wagner, Alexander

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April 30, 2018

43:25

A Journalist Seeks Out Her Roots, But Finds Few Answers In The Soil

Journalist Alex Wagner was 12 years old when a line cook in a diner asked her if she was adopted. Wagner was taken aback — her father's family came generations ago from Luxembourg, and her mother came to the U.S. from what was then Burma.

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