A Long Way from Home: Part 1 of 3

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  • The
  • true
  • story
  • of
  • 2
  • year-old
  • Anna,
  • abandoned
  • by
  • her
  • natural
  • parents,
  • left
  • alone
  • in
  • a
  • neglected
  • orphanage.Elaine
  • and
  • Ian
  • had
  • travelled
  • half
  • way
  • round
  • the
  • world
  • to
  • adopt
  • little
  • Anna.
  • She
  • couldn’t
  • have
  • been
  • more
  • wanted,
  • loved
  • and
  • cherished.
  • So
  • why
  • was
  • she
  • now
  • in
  • foster
  • care
  • and
  • living
  • with
  • me?
  • It
  • didn’t
  • make
  • sense.Until
  • I
  • learned
  • what
  • had
  • happened.
  • …Dressed
  • only
  • in
  • nappies
  • and
  • ragged
  • T-shirts
  • the
  • children
  • were
  • incarcerated
  • in
  • their
  • cots.
  • Their
  • large
  • eyes
  • stared
  • out
  • blankly
  • from
  • emaciated
  • faces.
  • Some
  • were
  • obviously
  • disabled,
  • others
  • not,
  • but
  • all
  • were
  • badly
  • undernourished.
  • Flies
  • circled
  • around
  • the
  • broken
  • ceiling
  • fans
  • and
  • buzzed
  • against
  • the
  • grids
  • covering
  • the
  • windows.
  • The
  • only
  • toys
  • were
  • a
  • few
  • balls
  • and
  • a
  • handful
  • of
  • building
  • bricks,
  • but
  • no
  • child
  • played
  • with
  • them.
  • The
  • silence
  • was
  • deafening
  • and
  • unnatural.
  • Not
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • thirty
  • or
  • so
  • infants
  • cried,
  • let
  • alone spoke.
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