Wednesday's Child — Tatiana


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SALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes in life you need to stop and smell the roses. On Wednesday that's exactly what Tatiana wanted to do.

"Oh, my gosh," said Tatiana. "I love them."

At Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake, nature's beauty is in full bloom.

"It's just a calming place," she said.

That calming serenity is what Tatiana has been looking for. For all the beauty in this world, Tatiana has seen her fair share of ugly.

"You're always looking for that support system," she said. "Somebody that's there all the time."

Tatiana is from Russia. She spent the first half of her life living in an orphanage.

"It's hard," she said. "You don't have anybody to look up to."

At 9 years old she came to the United States.

"I got adopted by a family that got to know me," she said.

But making it out of the orphanage and to the United States didn't mean her journey was over.

"It didn't work out," she said.


If I'm not adopted. I don't know. It's kind of scary to think about.

–Tatiana


Tatiana entered the foster care system in a country she didn't know, surrounded by a language she didn't understand.

"It was scary to go into foster care, actually really scary."

She says over the years she's become stronger and braver but still not whole.

"If there is a family out there that could accept me or help me out, that would be super," she said. "Yeah, that would be awesome."

Tatiana is running out of time. She's 20 years old, and in January when she turns 21, she'll age out of the foster care system.

"If I'm not adopted," she wondered out loud. "I don't know. It's kind of scary to think about."

Though technically an adult, she knows, no matter her age, she'll always want a family.

"If I get broken down in the road somewhere and I don't know where I'm at, I can call and say, 'Hey, Mom, come get me.’ ”

Come get me; something she hopes for every day in the form of adoption.

"Hopefully, we can skip forward all those years that we missed."

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