Originally posted on Sunday, July 20, 2014
I have found the 1991 documentary, Children of the Cradle, which I saw at a very impressionable age. It was the first time I remember seeing that not everyone lived as I did, that places like this existed in my world still. It was also my first time seeing the real Romania, not the Transylvania of Karloff and Lugosi films. Last night, a local Transylvanian asked me if all I knew about the place was vampires. I told him I knew of the orphans.