I Was Adopted From China. People Ask If I Feel ‘Lucky’ — And My Answer Isn’t What They Expect. (Iris Anderson)

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The first time I was in China, I became one of her lost girls. As I was taken from my birth mother’s arms and placed at a nearby train station, I became a statistic ― another baby uprooted by the country’s one-child policy. At 11 months old, I was plucked from China’s embrace and placed into that of my parents. My roots began to grow in the soil of a different land.

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