An Everlasting Bond
Published By:
Philadelphia Inquirer
Date
August 30, 2017
Excerpt:
Once again for their annual photograph, the girls posed in the backyard.
Under blue skies and a warm sun, the summer picnic was the latest reunion among five of seven families, thrown together by chance 20 years ago when they adopted their daughters in China.
“We became connected through the amazing journey,” said Valerie Parry of Cinnaminson, an elementary schoolteacher who, with her husband, Jack, adopted Madison at 10 months. The couple already had a daughter, now 40, and a son, now 37. “I still find it a marvel that each girl fits perfectly into her family as if it were meant to be.”