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>> Mr President, Will You Help Bring Our Waiting Children Home?

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China shut down foreign adoptions. This family doesn’t want to give up.

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The Maryland couple has been waiting years to bring home the girl they planned to adopt. She was 8 when they started the process. She’s now 13.

There’s a whiteboard beside the quilt-covered bed their daughter has never slept in.

On it are written a few of the promises Colin Pitts and Fan Patmade to a bright-eyed Chinese girl they committed to adopt in September 2019 — things they would do as a family once they received the final permission to bring her to America.

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