Mari Steed: 'I’m lucky in that my adoptive parents were informed and took the proper steps to have me naturalised as a US citizen.' I’m lucky in that my adoptive parents were informed and took the proper steps to have me naturalised as a US citizen. At the age of three, Marian was sent to Chicago to adoptive parents. Her adoptive mother was Irish, had a personal contact with a nun in Sean Ross Abbey, and had requested to adopt a child from there. She was ashamed, I guess.” Over lunch, her mother told her that she remained haunted by the way “the nuns had treated her and the other girls there.

Source: The Irish Times January 20, 2018 06:00 UTC