Relative Strangers

Relative Strangers

June 27, 2026 · 44 min · Season 7 · Episode 9

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Don talks with writer Laura Jenkins about her experience of discovering she is an NPE and the emotional journey that followed.

🧩 Relative Strangers This week on Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with writer Laura Jenkins, whose essay appears in the new anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, edited by B.K. Jackson. Laura shares her story of discovering she is an NPE and the emotional journey that followed — the shock, the questions, the search for truth, and the complicated process of making sense of identity when the story you were given turns out not to be the whole story...

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