Srey Powers , a former Vietnamese citizen , was adopted from Cambodia at the age of six . She was placed in an orphanage without explanation of what was happening to her . One memory is etched clear in my mind : A two-day trip traveling by moped , car and foot only to be left at a building with many infants , toddlers and strange adults . Twelve years later she traveled with her adoptive family to visit her Cambodian grandmother . She found her grandmother , who said : ` ` Forgive me for giving you away ''
Srey Powers , a former Vietnamese citizen , was adopted from Cambodia at the age of six . She was placed in an orphanage without explanation of what was happening to her . Twelve years later she traveled with her adoptive family to visit her Cambodian grandmother . She found her grandmother , who said : ` ` Forgive me for giving you away ''