A teenage girl, abused and abandoned as a child, almost aged out of adoption in India before a forever family arrived in the nick of time. From her new home in Maryland, the United States, the teen penned a heartfelt essay about her life-changing adoption experience, and the piece went viral. Sony was formally adopted out of her group foster home by Shannon Regan, a single parent at the time, in February 2020, before the global pandemic could prevent the move from taking place. Sony was just weeks away from her 15th birthday on June 3. “I was almost too old to get adopted, because when children reach a certain age, they can never be adopted,” Sony, who has a facial difference owing to a missing bone at birth and physical abuse, wrote in her essay. “This means they won’t ever have a family, they might become sad, drunk, homeless, take …