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A Parent Seeks the Father Who Abandoned Him

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  • Aired: 05/24/2012
  • 02:20
  • Rating: TV-PG
Robert, a Filipino Amerasian blogger, listens to his mother describe how the U.S. serviceman who was his father refused to accept responsibility for his son, in this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Left by the Ship.
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