The two sobbing boys, naked but for a scrim of grime, wrapped their arms and legs around Laurie Rockwell Sharma ’92 and held fast. “One was maybe a year old and the other, maybe 3. And they looked up at me with their big brown eyes and they were saying something, and I didn’t know what they were saying,” Laurie remembers. “And I looked down at them and it just broke my heart.”

This is the incredible, tragic, wondrous story of alumna Laurie Rockwell Sharma, who once struggled to find a reason for living, and of the families she lost, the families she found, and the families she is making now.

Read more of A Passage to India in the Spring 2018 issue of QuadAngles.