BIRTHRIGHT: Finding the Missing Piece of Me
Documentary Shorts • 13m
Britney Giaccone always felt something was missing.
As a young girl, she never identified with her “biological” dad. Fortunately, her stepfather filled a void in her life, but it was never enough to settle the feeling that something was off. A random decision to take a popular over-the-counter DNA test set her on an uncharted path to discovery. The unexpected results, changed her life forever.
Follow her emotional journey toward the answers she’d been seeking and to the love she thought she would never have.
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