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Access to Their Origins ShAKer LIFE | SUMMER 2015 29 Access to Their to Origins betsie norris’ legislative victory in columbus on behalf of the state’s adoptees has made her a saint in the eyes of adoptees across Ohio, and the nation. by dIAnA SIMeOn PHOTOGRAPHY BY GREEN STREET STUDIO except where noted March 20 this year was a huge day for Shaker resident Betsie Norris. What she calls her “life’s passion” was finally fulfilled. As the founder of Adoption Network Cleveland, she had spent decades struggling to get a state law enacted that would allow hundreds of thousands of adoptees in Ohio access to their birth certificates and adoption decrees – in short, access to their origins.


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