‘There is more to the story’

Twenty years ago, Lisa Belkin wrote an article in 1998 for the New York Times Magazine about open adoption titled “Now Taking Applications for My Baby.” The story focused on a birth mother, Gina Bruystens (now Gina Aparicio), and her process of selecting the adoptive parents of her unborn child. In the clip, Michael Matt, the newborn who is now 20, talks about discovering the article this past year after his birth mother inadvertently told him about it.