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Linda Carol Forrest Trotter speaks about reuniting with her adoptive family in Greece and meeting her mom unexpectedly.

ATHENS – The calendar read March 12, 2011. It was a rainy day and Merrill Jenkins was lost in thought having lost his wife just last September. A bit of the foggy weather that cold spring morning, a bit of the heavy mood from the great loss he had experienced, and Jenkins felt the need to look for h

Plus: A Nashville woman reunites with her long-lost birth mom from Greece.

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Greek-Born Adoptees Seek Justice ” width=”699″> Linda Carol Trotter, who was born Eftychia Noula in Greece. She was taken away from her mother, whom she later had been told had died, and was adopted and grew up in Texas. Courtesy of Linda Carol Trotter In the turbulent Cold War decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s, over 3,200 Greek-born adoptees grew up in America, while another 600 were sent to the Netherlands. Their adoptions, while given the coating of legality by the Greek courts, were mired in scandal and greed, and they were, at the very least, irregular — while some were even i...