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Hope is a 5 year old girl. The Randle family adopted her from the Republican Children’s Hospital in Crimea under the SDAPRC. They recently returned home on November 20, 2006.
Based on the news article, the Randles were doing an independent adoption (without an adoption agency). And they were using a lawyer to facilitate the adoption.
They had tried to adopt a child under the NAC in Feb 2006 without success.
[The Randles] spent a frustrating February in Ukraine without seeing a single child before the country abruptly suspended all foreign adoptions to restructure the system.
During the summer of 2006, Dr Moore, Tallahassee plastic surgeon, was evaluated the medical needs of the Republican Children’s Hospital in Crimea. He met and took photos of 5 year old Lubya [Hope].
Lubya’s story is unusual. She was abandoned at the hospital when she was 2 years old. And the nurses liked her so much they just kept her at the hospital. Normal process would have been for Lubya to move onto a baby orphanage.
Somehow information was passed from Dr Moore to the Randle’s facilitator. And this led the Randle family to adopting Lubya/Hope. Likely the family just asked the SDAPRC if they could adopt her specifically rather then accepting a general referral.
There is a new essay from Robert Klose. Robert is a single dad. He adopted Anton from Ukraine in 2001.
The essay is titled, A boy can run only so far – from a hot meal.
Do all young children run away from home at some point, or at least threaten to? I once did – when I was 8
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I stayed below with the hated math homework, listening as drawers were opened and closed above me. Five minutes later, Anton returned with a backpack sloppily stuffed with clothing, a toothbrush, and his Game Boy.
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“Where you headed?” I asked.
“Ukraine,” he said. (I need to mention here that I had adopted Anton in Ukraine when he was 5.)
“It’s a long way,” I said.
