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We wanted children. In an Eastern European orphanage, three girls waited. A country in anarchy, a judge with political ambitions, an adoption agency with insight and determination, and an interpreter with incredible strength and perseverance vied to bring us together. Throughout the adoption process, we knew that these girls were ours. To them, we were Mama and Papa from the first moment they saw us. Yet the bureaucracy, the shifting leadership, and the tides of public opinion created incredible obstacles. What started in a church mission trip became an epic odyssey. Share the laughter, the tears, and the incredible dedication of friends old and new who saw us through the two-year process of becoming a family.

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(This book details the) efforts made by (Lynn Ellen Doxon) and her husband to adopt a child. First, they try the foster-child route without success; then, after several other disappointments, they look into adopting from Ukraine, where their church had ties. Intent on adopting a little girl whose photo they had committed to memory, they find their hopes dashed early on when they discover that she has been reclaimed by her family. Next, they fall in love with two girls from the local orphanage, and, when a third sister is added to the mix, decide to adopt her as well. The remainder of the book provides blow-by-blow descriptions of what complicated the adoption finalization. Bureaucratic nightmares predominate with more judicial and paper error than can be readily fathomed. By the time the new family arrives home in New Mexico, the odyssey verges on the miraculous. --Library Journal Rainbows From Heaven is a heart melt respecting and honoring the divine power of family love. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of a couple adopting children half way around the world in the Ukraine. The author spotlights the stench of the foster care system in our own country focusing on the questionable policy of reunification, which may put a child back into harms way. The trip to the Ukraine comes after being foster parents and losing three therapeutic need children. These out of their control circumstances lead the author to decide to take her church up on an offer to go to the Ukraine. Once there, three little girls become the objects of her affection and the fight for adoption begins. This true-life story details the shattered sadness of a child snatching food from a dog so she could eat only to get mauled. The reader learns about children being forced to use the bathroom on demand as if they were pups being housebroken. A maze of factors twines through situations of poverty, abuse, and heart wrenching emotional isolation. Yet, this book proves to be an inspirational story of boundless faith. Tender passages like She held my face between her hands and rubbed my nose with her nose, then hugged me and snuggled into my lap while I cried peels back the layers of depression and frustration. Ms. Doxon bears witness to the pain and anguish of her fight while she shares her jubilant ravishing love for three incredible beautiful children proving that even the near impossible can be achieved. --Midwest Book Review

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Lynn holds a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Kansas State University and wrote a semi-weekly column on gardening in the Albuquerque Journal. SHe has written two previous books about gardening and making ethanol. While her daughters have grown and moved on she continues to find happiness and joy by helping to raise her granddaughter. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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