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A new brother, new sisters, celebrity parents and a globe-trotting lifestyle – it's hard to imagine how the world could change more dramatically for Pax, who was one of 326 children at the orphanage. Abandoned as a newborn by his birth mother at a local hospital, Pax – then called Pham Quang Sang – spent his days in the facility's structured environment: Toddlers rise at 6 a.m., when they brush their teeth and wash up before eating a typical breakfast of bread or rice porridge.
Then caretakers bring the children outside to play before engaging in group activities like singing and drawing. At 8:30 p.m. the lights go out and the children are tucked into their rows of small, plain beds. Gesturing to Pax's now-empty bed near the corner of the children's bedroom, Tuyen says, "he was here, and now he's gone. Everyone is sad since he left. We have mixed feelings – happy, proud of him, missing him."
