
Gotcha Day
Gotcha Day sparkles in your mind like a fairy tale during the months or years you wait to bring your baby home.
My name is Sue and I will start with today… my daughter Thea is 19 years old.. I adopted her from Cambodia through WHFC 18 years ago.. people always say to me that I saved her life and I say nooooo she saved my life!!
Let’s go back 18 years ago I was just going through life being crazy and I met a family that adopted from Korea from WHFC. I have always been the kool Aunt and never met anyone to share my life with so I made the decision to adopt. Since I was single I was nervous if they would accept me. I met with an amazing people in New yorks office of WHFC.. They accepted me and I started the process. I figured I would choose China because I was single. After all my paperwork I got a call asking if I would consider Cambodia that 2as closed at the time but was going to open. I said heck yes ! Then I had to sneak out and see where Cambodia was.. I received a call saying a little girl was waiting for me. I traveled to Cambodia and met my girl. I named her Dorothea Patricia. She was stunning..
Back to now.. Thea is an amazing and beautiful young woman . We are partners..we travel and I embarrass her and she loves me and I love her. We still meet up with our Cambodian families for reunions. Now they are old enough to meet up without us old people !! I would never ever change anything about us .
To submit your story and photos email: kbernstein@whfc.org
Gotcha Day sparkles in your mind like a fairy tale during the months or years you wait to bring your baby home.
I had a good friend just say we hit the “adoption jackpot” (twice). In a lot of ways, that is true.
You hear this quote a lot in the adoption community. That you have to be ready for the hurt a child endures as an orphan.
She is a true gift from God. She is amazing and wonderful and has been such a blessing over the past year. I am truly grateful and humbled that God entrusted me to be her forever mom.
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