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The Return

At just three days old, Kati Pohler was left on a street in the Chinese city of Suzhou, then adopted by an American family. 20 years later she returns to meet her birth parents.

At just three days old, Kati Pohler was left on a street in the Chinese city of Suzhou. At the time China's 'one-child policy' banned parents from having a second baby and many were abandoned. Kati's parents left a note with their daughter asking whoever raised her to bring her back to meet them at the 'Broken Bridge in Hangzhou' at a set date in the future. Kati was adopted by an American family and moved to the USA. Over twenty years later she is now returning to China to meet her birth parents, for the first time...

30 minutes

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Fri 29 Dec 2017 00:30GMT

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