She could have kept me. I couldn't, it's been such hard because I've heard so many stories. So she saved my life by letting me go. And sometimes when, when you let things go, God finds *** way to break that, bring that blessing somewhere else, that blessing came through *** painful journey into the unknown. In search of her roots. Saran Bynum was born in 1971 in Vietnam. Her father was an African American soldier serving in the war. Her mother was Vietnamese. I was *** man by my biological mother in the streets in fear of being killed because *** lot of the Vietnamese, they didn't want to uh see anybody who's, who had any, anything to do with Americans or anything to do with like kids in order to save the Amira babies from communism. President Ford launched operation baby lift and Bynum was airlifted to America at age three. She was adopted by *** loving couple in Gentilly. But several years ago, she got curious about her past. In order for you to move on, you have to acknowledge past your past, learn about it and learn to forgive. So the search began through DNA registries and the war veterans data Bynum found her biological father's family. They live in Memphis and last year they came all the way to New Orleans for her birthday. Unfortunately, Bynum's father Charles Wesson died of cancer. In 2016. My uncles told me when I went to visit them in Memphis, they said, sir, your father knew your biological mother and they were in *** relationship. No idea you were going through all those words start the healing process along with *** docu film. She is producing based on her life story. The movie ends when the father dies and she's at his deathbed. Bynum says she wrote that script before she ever knew that was her own reality. And every day she yearns to meet her biological mother. I know she thinks about me every year for mother's day for my birthday and wondered why I am. And now that she found her baby, I just wanna hug her and say thank you because because she said as the search continues, Saran is opening her arms to *** culture that was once so foreign. Now the essence of her identity. Now I know where I get my nose from my mouth, from you know, things that people really don't, they take for granted. And I started embracing my Asian culture and going to the New Year's Festival and I love making the noodles. I wanna learn how to make egg rolls because oh my God they're my favorite. The, the Vietnamese egg grows.