"My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional."

Source : "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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