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An investigative podcast uncovers how a wealthy Los Angeles couple, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, exploited the unregulated U.S. surrogacy industry to amass nearly two dozen children through multiple surrogates across the country, many of whom were deceived about the couple’s true family
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