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To Russia with Love - Jessica Long meets her real Siberian mom

US Paralympic star on emotional journey back to her roots to meet the parents who gave her up for adoption.

For star American swimmer Jessica Long, it will be an emotional homecoming

Jessica is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

Bid to adopt Siberia's 'Hachiko' fails as dog returns once more to hospital where owner died
Offers from all over the world to care for sad dog - but chief doctor says: 'Masha's home is here now, in our hospital'.
Adopt-a-granny scheme starts in Siberia giving new hope - and love - to the elderly

Heart-warming story as Anna Lazarenko, 92, gets a new family to care for her after a decade in a retirement home.

For star American swimmer Jessica Long, it will be an emotional homecoming

Entirely on her own initiative, Jessica - who will be 21 later this month - is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make it look easy, adopting kids from all corners of the world
Then the media broadcasts images of perfect Kodak moments. They’d have you believing families bond and blend instantaneously. They don't.
Happy ending for premature baby born in the back of a trolleybus on Christmas Day

Named Olga after the brave woman who helped save her life, the little girl abandoned by her mother at birth has new adoptive parents.

The Siberian parents who gave up Jessica Long as a new-born baby salute her heroic achievement
'I feel so sorry. At that time, there was fear, I got scared. I had to leave her behind. But I did think that I would take her back,' her Russian mother said. 
Siberian princess goes global 2,500 years after her death

Her ancient tattoo is a showpiece of the glittering opening ceremony for the Sochi Paralympics.

The moment Paralympic star Jessica Long meets her Siberian mother

US swimming star hugs the woman who gave her up as disabled child.

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