She was only a few hours old when her parents decided they didn’t want her. The reason?

The night was cold in northern China when a small bundle was left at the doorstep of an orphanage. Wrapped in thin cloth, the baby girl whimpered softly, her pale skin glowing almost unnaturally under the dim streetlight. To her parents, she looked “too different”—so different, in fact, that they believed she would never be accepted by society. And so, they walked away, leaving their infant daughter behind, her future uncertain, her fate left in the hands of strangers.

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