Despite the warning that she might be stunned, when Kristen was first shown the photograph of her prospective daughter by her adoption case worker, her immediate reaction wasn’t disgust.
Instead, the brave woman was overwhelmed with love and compassion for the little girl, who had been refused many times by other potential adoptive parents, purely because of the way she looked. The then-3-year-old child Durga, an orphan from India, was abandoned at birth and left in a bush.
Before she was found and rescued by a policeman a day later, insects and a dog had eaten away at her nose, leaving her with a gaping hole in the middle of her face. Read the full story here ▶
