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Pushpa Devi was featured in a “Folio” cover story from November 1994, where she told her story about her traumatic childhood experience about being adopted and taken to the U.S. from her home in Calcutta (Kolkata), India. We reached out to Pushpa to catch up since the last time we spoke to her almost 20 years ago.   FOLIO: In the 1994 cover story, you mentioned two differing stories about how you were adopted. Do you now fully believe you know everything that happened? PUSHPA DEVI: I am still unsure of the answers. I have had some interactions with my …

Archive Follow-Up Words by Rain Henderson & Kerry Speckman In 1995, Folio spoke with Cindy Mosling, co-founder of B.E.A.K.S. (Bird Emergency Aid and Kare Sanctuary) on Big Talbot Island, about pelicans. “Here we go again,” Mosling said about reports from concerned local workers in Mayport regarding pelicans dying in the St. Johns River. But something was different this time. Instead of being caused by an oil spill, Mosling insisted, a massive petroleum fire occurring two years prior was the culprit. After she learned 600,000 gallons of fire retardant, known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), were dumped in the St. …