She Left a Ukrainian Orphanage Weighing 35 Pounds and Won Paralympic Gold
Gay Masters saw the photograph in an adoption magazine and could not forget the little girl staring back at her. Oksana was living in Ukraine, had severe limb differences and had already been passed over by other prospective families. Gay did not see a list of medical problems. She saw the child she wanted to bring home. Getting Oksana out took roughly two years of paperwork, delays and persistence.