Read More on LifeBeing Abandoned in Central ChinaAt just three months old, Ming Fuller was placed in a basket and left outside of a government building. Recording her as "abandoned," Ming Fuller was placed in the care of an orphanage in Mingshan for over a year before she was adopted. She was later told she shared a crib with another child during her time there and was malnourished when adopted. Its decades-long enforcement, combined with a cultural preference for male heirs, contributed to a sharp rise in the abandonment of infant girls, many of whom were placed in orphanages and later adopted internationally. For Ming Fuller, questions about that history and her place within it remain unresolved, and she is in no hurry to force an answer.