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Holt adoptive mom Karen Myers shares about Holt's first Mongolia Heritage Tour and her 15-year-old son Zack's experience visiting his birth country for the first time since he came home to his family.

Karen and Zack attend the festivities for Mongolia's annual Naadam holiday celebration.

In July 2017, my son and I had the opportunity to join five other families from across the U.S. on Holt International’s inaugural Mongolia Heritage Tour. I adopted Zack in September 2003 when he was a year and a half, and this trip would be our first time back in Ulaanbaatar — UB. So many questions flooded my brain as I packed for the trip. How would my Mongolia-born, all-American-boy respond to the unanswerable and confusing questions that the trip would inevitably bring up? And most of all, would he want me to come with him?

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