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Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay - brought up in care in the UK - travelled to meet his birth mother in Gambia
"My name - I thought - was Norman Greenwood for the first 15 years of my life... I thought that finding my mother was all about my story, when really the truth is, it's about her story."
Writer Lemn Sissay - fostered and brought up in a care home in the UK - travelled to Gambia to meet his Ethiopian birth mother when he was 21.
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