Irina’s Dad was sent to prison and her mother was a heavy drinker, took drugs, and often beat Irina. When she was 7 years old, her mother cut Irina’s head with a knife, that was the last time that she saw her mother. She ran away from the hospital, from a children’s colony, and from an orphanage. She ended up living on the street for 2 years before she came to stay at our home at the age of 10. Until her later teens, she suffered with grand mal seizures. She had eye surgery on both eyes when she was 20.