Help Kuo Find Her Birth Family

Hi, my name is Kuo Reese (Kuo Hui-Ju). I was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980. I was adopted and came to the U.S. in 1982. I have always wanted to know about my birth family but have not had any luck on Ancestry.com or 23&me.com.

My adoption story is quite different than many others. In the early 1980s there was a woman named Julie Chu. She and several others were arrested for allegedly adopting out babies that may have been stolen or taken illegally. Birth certificates and identification were forged and Julie and the others were sent to jail. At the time, the Taiwanese police searched for the birth families for the many babies that Julie had adopted out or had with her at the time of her arrest.

Now many of those babies, who are now adults, are looking for their birth families. A few have found them through DNA analysis done in Taiwan and compared to people who finally come forward looking for their loss children.

My dream is to go back to Taiwan to search for my birth family & I need your help to get me there. All the funding from the donation will goes toward plane tickets, lodging and travel expenses for Kuo's trip to her birthplace, Taiwan. Her trip will also be documented in the documentary which is scheduled to release in a year from now.

大家好，我的名字叫郭（中文原名郭慧珠）。我於1980年出生於台北台灣。1982年被收養來到美國。我一直在尋找我的原生家庭，但一直沒有在Ancestry.com 或 23&me.com 等血源尋人網站上得到任何結果。

我的收養故事與許多人截然不同。 台灣80年代初期，有一位名叫褚麗卿的女性，她和其他幾人因涉嫌販賣嬰兒和偽造出生證明而被捕。當時，台灣警方試著為已被領養出國的嬰兒，或是和她在一起的許多嬰兒尋找原生家庭，然而卻因為嬰兒身份被偽造，而遲遲尋親無果。

至今，許多已經長大成人的嬰兒仍在苦苦尋找他們的原生家庭。好消息是，感謝幾年來的 DNA 技術進步，和 DNA 資料庫的擴建，一些人終於通過在台灣進行的 DNA 分析比較後與家人團聚。

我的夢想是回台灣尋找我的親人，我需要你們的幫助。捐款的所有資金將用於支付郭的機票、住宿和前往她的出生地台灣的旅行費用。她的尋親故事也將記錄在計劃於一年後上映的紀錄片中。