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Baby Pajamas, Seoul, South Korea

Jim Lommasson
Jim Lommasson / What We Carried

Liani Reeves: 

Coming to America as an orphan, I didn’t carry anything. Someone carried me. My foster mom dressed me in these little pink pajamas and sent me  on my long journey away from the orphanage doorstep where my birth mother left me, and away from my birth country of Korea.

I arrived in the United States at JFK airport on September 30, 1976 where I met my new family for the first time. When my new mom met me, I was screaming and crying in these little pink pajamas. She kept me, and the pajamas, all these years.

Liani Jeanheh Reeves,

Formerly known as Shin Kyong Ok

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