[post_page_title]Raising more questions[/post_page_title]
In the end, Carlina and her biological parents fell out over the money, and their relationship couldn’t be mended. However, the story did make the national newspapers, and it was this report that piqued Steve Carter Jr.’s interest.
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Learning about Carlina’s adoption story made him think of his own, and he came to the conclusion that he wanted to know more about his early life and parents. At the time, he only knew that he had been born in Hawaii in 1977 and given the name Tenzin Amea before making his way into the adoption system.