Jessica Tatiana Long

[Кирилл Сызранский]

A well written story about it here.
20-year old former irkutyanka Tatiana O. Kirillov has already won three times Parolimpiad and ten times world champion.
She was born in Bratsk, February 29, 1992. With the birth of her mother refused: the child no small fibula, no ankles, and many foot bones. Infant identified in Irkutsk orphanage № 1.
In 1993, Americans adopted a Tanya from Baltimore.

It's not that she won in London already the third Parolimpiadu. The point is not that installed two dozen world records. And the point is not that she does not have legs. And not even that Jessica was born in Irkutsk, and was adopted by Americans from Irkutsk orphanage.

The fact that the story of Jessica Tatiana Long could not happen in an angry and aggressive world, what we used to consider the world in which we live. The story, no doubt, took place in a world populated by good people, and each character of the story did the best I could, as long as the girl was happy.

Jessica called foster parents Beth and Steve. The girl has a lot of sisters and brothers. Long wife adopted in Irkutsk and a boy with a cleft lip.

Caregivers orphanage said Steve Long and his wife, the biological parents of the children have died from the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. But Americans believe that children abandoned by single mothers who could not take care of them.

And, of course, several survey crews central channels (First and Russia - 1) are now working in Irkutsk. Journalists looking for relatives of Jessica Long.
Here's the site.
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