How a DNA test inspired actress-activist Kerry Washington's journey of self-discovery

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How a DNA test inspired actress-activist Kerry Washington's journey of self-discovery
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Washington was an adult when she learned that she had been conceived via artificial insemination and the man she considered her father was not her biological dad. Her new memoir is Thicker than Water.

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"I didn't grow up feeling that kind of deep emotional transparency and intimacy with my mother," Washington says."But looking back, I think, 'How could I have?' She was keeping a secret from me that she could not reveal." "Especially in this climate of our reproductive rights being under such extraordinary attack and assault," she says. 'There are obviously parts of this story that are somewhat unique to my family. But there's also just the reality that these are so much of the themes and issues that all of us as women are dealing with. I feel really lucky that I get to be part of the conversation and encourage the conversation."In that period of my childhood, they argued a lot.

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