I'm so grateful to my mother for helping us out while we went through all of the paperwork. We wouldn't have been able to do it without her.

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I talked to Gerry and told him that I wanted to be a mother. We thought that maybe it would be faster if it was done in Peru. But it's a very sad thing when you go to another country. You don't just see older homeless people in the city. You see children, begging. It breaks my heart.

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The kids already had an idea of us as parents. They already saw pictures of us and our house, so they already knew a little about us and they were looking forward to having a family.

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