![]() “All these people keep asking you how you feel.” ![]() “Let me ask you something,” I say as the day crawls on, and he has been asked the question two or three dozen times, and his eyes begin to close because he’s worn out. We’ve talked about a lot of things through the years, about family and sharks, about food and dreams, faith and football, about kids and ice cream and how hard it is to not care when people boo. We’ve known each other a long time, Jimmie and I. “I don’t know that I have the words,” he says. How does it FEEL to come from nowhere to win your seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, Jimmie? How does it FEEL to tie the two enduring legends of your sport, “The King,” Richard Petty and “The Intimidator,” Dale Earnhardt? How does it FEEL to be the best at what you do, to be inside a race car, rushing at the speed of chaos with 39 maniacs around you barely holding on? No, really, break it down for our audience, how does it feel to be you, Jimmie Johnson, championship race-car driver, part-time triathlete, millionaire philanthropist like Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark, loving husband, adoring father, everybody’s best friend and somehow, still, the nicest guy? They wait for him outside the Time Life Building. They wait for him on top of the Empire State Building. USA Today … Mad Dog Radio … NFL Radio … TMZ. Well, this is the question to ask, isn’t it? The bus crawls through New York traffic and takes Jimmie Johnson from office building to office building. NEW YORK - Again and again, over and over, they ask him how he FEELS. In the end it leads her to a profound personally discovery, her two half’s have helped make her the whole individual that she is – Jessica Tatiana Long. The journey is a test for her physically and mentally, but through it all Long poignantly takes us through the process of coming to grips with her Russian roots. It’s an adventure that takes her more than 7,000 miles from the world and family she grew up knowing. ![]() It’s here that we see the overwhelming moment where she comes face-to-face for the first time, not only with her birth mother, but her biological father, brothers and sisters – the Russian family she had never met. Originally named Tatiana Olegovna Kirillova, Long retraces her adoption back to her orphanage in Irkutsk, Russia, and on to what would have been her hometown of Bratsk, deep in the heart of Siberia. Over the course of “Long Way Home: The Jessica Long Story,” Long tells the remarkable story of how she discovered her first family, and eventually embarked on a journey through a past she never knew. Paralympians and also someone who, from 13 months old at her adoption from a Russian orphanage, has longed to know who she really is. The feature tracks Long’s journey from the States to Siberia – Baltimore to Bratsk – to meet her birth family.Ī double amputee and a Russian-born orphan, Jessica Long has grown up as two people simultaneously, a dedicated and determined young woman who has used that drive to become one of the most-decorated U.S. “Long Way Home” chronicles the story of Jessica Long, a world-class swimmer, 12-time Paralympic gold medalist, and 21-year old American from a Baltimore suburb, who was born in Russia and adopted by American parents. ![]()
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