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World Service,2 mins

Two adoptees volunteer at their former orphanage

Boston Calling

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Two girls, Abigail Anderson and Bingjie Turner, were adopted from an orphanage in China when they were 13 years old and brought to the US. Then, as adults, they returned to see what had happened to friends who were not adopted — the so-called "left-behinds." (Image: Abigail Anderson (left) and Bingjie Turner (right) lived at the Xining Children's Home before being adopted. Anderson went to live with a family in Virginia and Turner with a family in Washington state. Credit: Courtesy of Abigail Anderson and Bingjie Turner)

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