Adoptee Meets Grandma

“Hannah Cohen, 18, held the hand of her 83-year-old grandmother, Iryna Starkiw, and pointed with pride to the school garden she’d help create. Just the day before, the two met tearfully for the first time, 16 years after Hannah was adopted from a Russian orphanage.
“She was very emotional when we first met, but they were happy tears,” said Hannah, who was 28 months old when Eileen Cohen of Sharon adopted her. “It was amazing for me to see her. I was so happy, I could not stop smiling.”
As they walked the grounds of the Norfolk County Agricultural School in Walpole, where Hannah is a senior in the animal sciences division, the two shared their affection for animals and for each other. Iryna laughed with delight when she saw the selfie Hannah took of them, and then she took Hannah in her arms and danced around, afterward enfolding her in a full body hug.”

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Adopted Sharon teen finally gets to meet her Russian birth grandmother[Patriot Ledger 4/30/14 By Jody Feinberg]

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