Sara Hinesley was born without hands.
But that didn’t stop the 10-year-old girl from winning a national handwriting contest in the United States.
Sara uses no prosthetics and writes with a pencil held between her arms.
“She has this independent streak where she just knows that she can do it and she’ll figure out her own way," her mother, Cathryn Hinesley, told The Washington Post.
Born in China, Sara came to the US four years ago after the Hinesley family adopted her. She is now a third-grade student studying at St John’s Regional Catholic School in Maryland.
Since China passed legislation in 1992 to allow non-Chinese citizens to adopt the country’s orphans, American families have become to
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Apr 24, 2019