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*H*O*P*E*

We know a family that is being united for the first time this very week. The couple has waited through a long difficult adoption process, and now they are parents to two beautiful children. It really does happen. They give us incredible hope.

The mom reprinted the following on her blog just a few hours before meeting her daughter for the first time yesterday:

Not flesh of my flesh,
Nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
You didn't grow under my heart - but in it.
- Fleur Conkling Heylinger
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