Reunited Adoptee: Why I Wanted Open Adoption for My Daughter Welcome back to another Season of #afthtv. In this episode of AFTHtv, we were joined by Mary Pettice who shared her own personal story as an adoptee in a closed adoption. While Mary always knew she was adopted, her parents knew very little about her birth parents. She was always curious and as she grew up and became aware of the growing search movement, Mary began to search and eventually reunited with both her birth mother and birth f