On February 10, 1998, a girl was born in Huanggang, a city in Central China's Hubei Province.
Eleven days later, the infant was abandoned on a bleak winter street by her parents. A woman found her later that day, and the baby was taken to the Huanggang Social Welfare Institute. There she was given a name, Huang Zhongrong.
21 years later, Calla Kelley-Renda lives on Long Island, New York, 7,000 miles away from Huanggang, and has begun the search for her birth parents.
In a recent interview with NewsChina, Calla, now 23 years old, shares her stories of adoption and growing up in the US, how she struggled to fit in as one of a few Asians living in the community, and her trips back to Huanggang to find her roots.
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