Orphanhood

"But I am not Nataliya or Natasha, because at six months old I was delivered from Kratovo, Moscow Oblast, to Brooklyn, New York. I don’t remember the trip or ever having lived in Russia at all. What I know about my orphanhood is limited to what I’ve been told by my parents and then by what they were told, which was sketchy at best: a week-old baby girl was found in an empty typewriter case in the second-to-last pew of an Eastern Orthodox Church."
      Naomi is a Russian orphan girl. Although she was born in Moscow, Russia and was abandoned by her parents, this has no effect on her. To her, being adopted was just a part of her past.