(WXIA) – In 1983, she was left to die in a dumpster. Abandoned, wrapped in a towel, and cold to the touch. Thanks to a group of strangers who saved her, she’s here – more than 36 years later – looking for them. She doesn’t wish to find her biological family who left her there. Rather, she wants to find the people who rescued her. She proudly shows the very first picture of her. It came home with her from the adoption agency. Days after she was found in an Atlanta dumpster, someone snapped the picture of Baby Jan Winter.
The hospital staff named her that because she was born in January – in the middle of winter. That’s all they knew. “There’s a part of my life that I am completely missing,” the woman, who now goes by Amanda Jones, said. She became Crystal in foster care, and then Amanda when she was adopted. Amanda Jones is the name that feels like home, and she said she never really wanted to know more than that … or even to find her biological mother. “I really just wanted to tell her that I forgave her,” she explained. “People make bad decisions when they’re under pressure, and I didn’t want her to live her whole life with this on her heart.” READ MORE
