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were leaving the week of Thanksgiving to pick up the girl.
“My husband and I grew up in Hong Kong, and he’s half Chinese,” Slaton said. “We have five grown children — a blended family — who are all so jazzed by the idea of having a Chinese sister.”
Her husband explained why they were adopting a 10-year-old.
“We decided that we didn’t have the er\ergy for a baby, but we did want to have a child together,” he said.
Slaton said she prefers to work with Chinese child agencies, for herself as well as for her clients.
“We did a lot of Russian and eastern European adoptions, but not anymore,” Slaton said. “China has a centralized agency, while in Russia, it
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