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United by history

The common bond of their historic roots has led to many of the adoptees staying in close contact.

Dozens met up for a 25th anniversary reunion in Baltimore, Maryland in April 2000.

World Airways, which organised the first unofficial flight of adoptees from Vietnam, is flying 20 of them back to mark 30 years of the operation.

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