Learning to Belong to Two Families at Once

Kamiyah was also building a relationship with her biological parents and siblings, the family she had only just met. She described it as a balancing act — not choosing one family over the other, but learning to hold both at the same time. In 2018, she told ABC News she wanted to find a way to balance 'everybody and everything.' It was a strikingly modest goal for someone whose entire identity had been decided for her before she was even a day old.