Leping, Jiangxi, China → United Kingdom Hi, my name is Alex, and I’m 27 years old. I live in the UK with my parents and have a younger adopted sister (not biologically related) who was also from China. We’re from the same province of Jiangxi. I was born in March 1998 in Leping and adopted in November 1998 when I was about 8 months old. I was found by a man named Zou Shuihua and was taken to the Leping Social Welfare House. There was a red note found with me with my birthdate

By: Téa Tamburo People love to romanticize the idea of being an only child: all the attention, all the resources, all the independence. But what that version leaves out is the quiet. I'm here to add my experience to the narrative. I grew up alone, not just as an only child, but as an adoptee, as a Chinese daughter in a family where no one looked like me. When people talk about sibling rivalry or growing up fighting over sharing toys, I can't relate at all — which, depending o