Inga Petri is 20 years old.
She has had no biological family since her birth and lives in the orphanage in Novosibirsk where she was born.
Her parents felt they couldn’t care for this special girl. Despite a challenging start in life, luck was on Inga’s side.
When she was two and a half years old, a couple from Pennsylvania, Daniel and Jennifer Petrie, adopted her.
They did their best to raise little Inga and make her a confident and happy child.
Unfortunately, the family didn’t have the time to buy prosthetic hands on time. Each hand costs several hundred thousand dollars.
Initially, she could hold utensils with her feet. But now, as an adult, she can do almost everything: play the cello, type on the computer, apply makeup, and even write. Today, she is on the verge of graduating high school in Atlanta.
She aspires to become a qualified lawyer, having been interested in human rights since high school.
However, she doesn’t want to see her birth parents often and doesn’t even know who they are.
She believes her true family is in the United States. Only with her adoptive parents, who raised her and taught her to love herself, does she consider herself truly happy.
