brian: back to the chart, right below that is woman whose name is monika hertwig. who is she? jennifer: monika is my biological mother. that is the name she took when she was married, but she was born as monika goeth. she is the daughter of them. brian: did you know her? jennifer: yes. she was my biological mother. she gave me up for adoption, but we were in contact for the first years of my life. she gave me to an orphanage when i was four weeks old, but only at seven years old we lost contact because i was adopted by a white german family. brian: have you seen her in the last seven years? jennifer: i did. brian: where does she live? jennifer: in germany. brian: where was she born? jennifer: she was born in germany. brian: let's go back to the chart, off to the side -- we don't have a name for this. your biological father. he was nigerian. jennifer: yes. brian: where is he? jennifer: he is also living in germany. he was a student when he came to germany. i will talk about it more later on when we talk about the family structure. my biological parents met in the household of my