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Speaker 1: Even as a young child, Remy could feel she was

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no longer safe in a country where families were limited

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to one child and sons were prized above daughters. Her

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mother had wanted a boy. When Remy's baby brother was born,

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Remy was sent away and life with her mother ended altogether.

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This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters who love a

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captivating true story, but we're also seeking more light in

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our lives.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. Emily and I live

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in different states, as a lot of you know, but

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we just had the best weekend together with our mom

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and our sister Julie, and our sister and Lama.

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Speaker 1: It was just so great. Yeah, it was so fun.

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And we just want to give a quick shout out

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to the amazing women in our lives because we love

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you guys so much. We do, all right, So today's

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story is so fascinating, and before we jump in, we

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just want to clarify something You're going to be hearing

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about a young girl named Remy, and Remy was not

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actually the name she was given at birth. She was

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given a different Chinese name at birth, but today she

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goes by Remy, So that's what we're going to be

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calling her in this story.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and we have so much to discuss afterwards, so

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make sure you stay to the end. We'll have some

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interesting information to share. But for now, let's get to

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the story.

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Speaker 1: Let's go for a time, Remy's world was small, peaceful,

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and safe. Remy lived the first few years of her

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life in China with her grandparents. Her grandmother cared for

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her in a way that made life feel predictable and secure,

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and in those early years, Remy had no question where

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she belonged. But that stability didn't last. When her grandfather died,

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everything changed. She and her grandmother could no longer stay

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where they'd been living, and the only place left to

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go was to Remy's mother's home. Remy's mother hadn't wanted

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Remy to begin with. In a country where families were

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limited to one child and sons were prized above daughters,

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her mother had wanted a boy. Remy simply by being

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a girl was not the child her mother had hoped for.

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When Remy's baby brother was born, Remy was sent away.

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Having Remy back met her mother was in violation of

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China's one child policy at the time. This could lead

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to hefty fines known as social maintenance fees, and even

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job loss. Even as a young child, Remy could feel

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she was no longer safe. Her mother and unsympathetic, would

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place Remy on the top bunk of the bed with

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no rails, high enough that even small movements felt dangerous.

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Remy would lie awake, afraid to close her eyes. When

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the fear became too much, she would quietly make her

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way to her grandmother's bed, trying to find the same

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sense of security she'd once known. But those moments were

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long gone. Her mother would come in angry and force

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her back to the top bunk, and there were other

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times moments that felt like daggers in Remy's heart. Often

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in the middle of the night, while she slept, her

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mother would lift her from her bed, carry her outside,

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and leave her alone down the street. Then five year

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old Remy would wake in the darkness on the cold ground,

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realizing she had been abandoned and have to find her

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way back to her mother's high rise apartment on her own.

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Around that same time, Remy remembers finding a couple of

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baby pictures in the apartment and asking her mother who

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the baby was. Remy knew the pictures weren't of her

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or her brother, but her mother's answers were inconsistent and

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didn't make much sense. Perhaps there had been another baby

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her mother hadn't wanted. If her mother could get rid

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of one child, would she also get rid of Remy.

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Any feelings of self worth that Remy once had shattered

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like jade thrown to the ground, but it would only

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get worse. Not long after her fears became reality, and

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life with her mother ended altogether, Remy's mother sent her

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to live in an orphanage. Even her grandmother could do

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nothing to help her. The pain was almost unimaginable, and

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Remy felt so alone. Eventually, Remy was placed in a

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foster home, but if she was hoping for kindness, she

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wouldn't find it there. Her The foster mother nicknamed Remy,

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the Chinese word for dog feces. Remy was never given

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enough to eat and was often very sick. When she

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got sick, her foster father would claim it was Remy's

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own fault because she was bad luck. It was a tough,

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unrelenting life for a child that had already endured so much.

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But in time, there was one bright spot in Remy's life. Abby.

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She was a girl Remy had met in the orphanage.

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She was just a year older than Remy, and the

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two girls were placed in foster homes next door to

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each other. Neither girl felt safe or loved. Abby's home

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was even crueler than Remy's. Abby's foster mother would pinch

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her cheeks so hard that it left scars. But Remy

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and Abby had each other, and the two girls bonded

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over their shared experiences. Before long, they became best friends.

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They walked to school together every day, both navigating a

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world where they didn't quite belong, and as the years passed,

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neither of them had any idea of what was quietly

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beginning to unfold on the other side of the world.

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Sandra Allen, who lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, was not looking

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for another child. She and her husband had already adopted

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multiple children and had reached a point where she felt

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her family was complete. She also understood all the adoption

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required the time, the financial commitment, and the emotional adjustment

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that came every time a new child joined the family.

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Speaker 3: So I had no plans to adopt at the time.

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And I have a friend named Robin, and she was

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wanting to adopt from China. And Madison Adoption Associates in

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Delaware had started a new program with China to try

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and find homes for older kids because the fort was

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mostly just like base, these are small kids. But they

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decided to try to get some homes for older orphans

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and they had about thirty older kids and they had

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the kids standing all of a room with a microphone

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and through a translator answer questions. So Robin, you asked

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me to look at these kids because she was wanting

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to adopt. So I was like, okay, I'll look at

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the kids. Which it's hard to look at kids if

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you're not like one on adopting, because you do feel

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sorry for the kids. But anyways, I was like, okay,

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I'll to be supportive of Robin.

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Speaker 1: Sandra and Robin watched a video of the kids. One

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by one, they stood in front of a microphone, answering

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questions through a translator, doing their best to present themselves

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to families they might never meet. It was difficult for

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Sandra to watch. And then she saw Remy, a shy

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ten year old girl, and.

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Speaker 3: I did feel sorry for her because she just looked

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so scared and timid and like she was trying really

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hard to do a good job, but yet you could

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tell she wanted to cry.

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Speaker 1: A couple of days later, Robin, Sandra's friend, said something simple,

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you should adopt her. I'm going to adopt her best friend.

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to a long conversation, careful consideration, and probably hesitation. Sandra

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had always been intentional in her decisions, especially when it

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came to adoption, but this time her response came immediately.

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Speaker 3: I know it was God because I said okay. That's

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all I said, was okay, And it was like, so

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not me.

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Speaker 1: When Sandra's husband, Mike came home from work that night,

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Sandra brought it up to him, expecting a long, difficult discussion. Instead,

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his response was as unexpected as her own had been.

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Speaker 3: And he goes, I'd ask, he goes, nobody else will

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do it, And they turn that we're out of the room,

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and I was like, wow, I think that was a yes.

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Like I was shocked and that was it.

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Speaker 1: The next day, Sandra called the agency and committed to

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adopting Remy. At almost the exact same time other decisions

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were being made. Sandra's friend Robin had changed her mind.

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After praying about it, Robin felt a clear answer come.

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Abby was meant to go somewhere else. Robin was not

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going to adopt her after all. Sandra's friend Robin had

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changed her mind. Abby was meant to go somewhere else.

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Robin was not going to adopt her after all. This

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news stunned Sandra, and she wondered if she should still

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go through with her own adoption, but she felt she'd

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received an answer from God that Remy was meant to

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come to her home, even if Robin wasn't going to

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adop adopt Abby. At that point, Remy and Abbey's paths

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were set to diverge. The two girls who had been

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so close, who had loved each other when no one

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else would knew the time was coming when they would

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be forced to say goodbye to one another. The agency

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facilitating the adoptions was in Delaware. Children from that program

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were placed with families all over the United States, and

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there was no reason to think Remy's and Abbey's lives

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would ever intersect again. Time passed and the day grew

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closer to when Remy and Abby would be adopted. And

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then one day, Sandra got thinking about the daughter who

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was soon coming to be a part of their family.

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A question lingered in her mind. Sandra decided to join

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the adoption agency's private Yahoo group to see if she

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could find out who was going to adopt Remy's best

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friend Abby. She typed the question on the screen. The

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response came quickly. A woman named Jan said she was

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adopting Abby.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, I'm in Indiana. Where are you?

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Speaker 1: Sandra wasn't even sure why she asked it. She knew

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Remy's best friend would likely live hundreds of miles away,

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but something compelled her to do so, and the response

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stunned her. Jan wrote back, she was in Indiana too,

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What were the chances?

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Speaker 3: And I go We're in Plainfield, which of course is

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the suburbs of Indianapolis, And she goes, well, you're gonna

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love this. I'm in Monrovia. Monrovia is like twenty minutes

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Speaker 1: Both women sat at their computers, shocked to discover that

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they only lived twenty minutes apart. Remy and Abby, the

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two best friends who were coming from the other side

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of the world, had been placed unbelievably close, and it

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felt like more than coincidence. Jan brought Abby home first.

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About two weeks later, Sandra returned with Remy. When Remy

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arrived at the airport, Abby and her family were there

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to meet her. Grateful to see a familiar face, she

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was also exhausted, overwhelmed, and trying to process everything that

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had just changed in her life. Sandra brought Remy home

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and introduced her to her new family, and in an instant,

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Remy was dropped into an entirely different world, new culture,

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new school, even a new language, and while she was

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grateful to be treated kindly and to go to bed

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with a full belly, it was still a lot to

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adjust to. At the same time, Abby was adjusting to

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her new family as well. Nearly a year passed without

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much interaction between the two girls. Being placed so close

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to each other began to feel more and more like

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just a coincidence, and then one night, thousands of people

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had gathered for a fourth of July fireworks display in Plainville,

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Sandra and her family found a spot and settled in

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for the evening. One of Sandra's other daughters pointed out

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that Abby's family was there too, not across the park,

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not on the other side of the crowd, right behind them.

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Out of a crowd of seventeen thousand people, the two

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families had ended up sitting within a few feet of

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each other. They all moved their blankets closer, spent the

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evening together, and watched the fireworks side by side.

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Speaker 3: I ended up taking a bunch of pictures that night

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of Ramy and Abbey together once again.

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Speaker 1: The situation itself was hard for Sandra to ignore. Two

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girls who had known each other in China, who had

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shared a difficult childhood in the same place, had somehow

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both been adopted into families close enough to run into

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each other at a local event without planning it. It

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felt remarkable, but it wasn't until later that night, when

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the house quieted down and Sandra began looking through the

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picture she had taken, that everything came into focus. As

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Sandra clicked through the images one by one, something about

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the girls sitting next to each other stood out more

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than it ever had In the moment, it wasn't just

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that they looked familiar and friendly with each other. It

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was something more. The realization rushed into Sandra's mind and

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heart as a cascade of emotions washed over her.

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Speaker 3: I download the pictures and it was just like Claire'sabel.

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Remy was upstairs. I call her down. I go Remykmara,

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I said, Remy, Abby is your sister.

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Speaker 1: The four simple words echoed across the room like a cannon.

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Remy looked at the pictures, quiet and unreadable. At first,

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she didn't respond. Instead, she turned and started back up

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the stairs, as if the statement hadn't fully landed. But

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a few steps up she stopped. She turned back, looking again,

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and something in her expression shifted. When she spoke, her

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voice was soft but steady.

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Speaker 3: And she turned back around and she goes, that's the baby.

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she goes, that's the baby.

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Speaker 1: The room went quiet in a different way after that.

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but Remy's response brought something else into it, something that

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reached further back than anything Sandra had known. Remy began

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to explain slowly, in a way someone does when they

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are often pulling together a memory that suddenly makes sense.

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She talked about the pictures she had found when she

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was younger, the ones she had asked her biological mother

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about the answers that had never lined up.

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Speaker 3: When she told me the story, she said, I find

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picture she's talking about they'll living with a refman. I

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find picture. I say, who's this baby? My mom say

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that's you and Remy say, I know, not me, And

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she said she had on like a blue bunny outfit.

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She goes, I find another picture later she's like of

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a baby in a yellow bunny outfit and I say,

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this me, who's the And then her mom said that's

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the neighbor. So Remy had these memories. So when I said,

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that's your sister, that's why she said, that's the baby.

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to have a place. Could it really be true that

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Remy and Abby were sisters? Sandra believed it completely, but

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it took time before Abby's family was ready to pursue testing.

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building strong relationships with their adoptive families while this possibility

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remained in the background, but it also didn't go away.

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Speaker 3: So after that, I just started telling everybody, like their sisters,

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I know their sisters. And I was telling Abby mom.

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I kept saying for like it was late two years.

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I kept saying their sisters, their sisters. But Abbie's mom

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Jan did not want to get them tested, like she

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never would go for it. And so after two years,

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three year, we were at a Chinese New York party

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for Chinese adopted kids, and I was sitting next to

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Abby's dad, Greg, so I'd tell him this whole story.

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I'm like, I know their sisters. So we went home

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that night. Jane called me and she says Greg said

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to have him tested.

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Speaker 1: Sandra and Remy waited anxiously for the results, and then

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they came back there. It was undeniable the results. Their

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hearts had already confirmed.

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Speaker 3: And then we tested them and they're like hundred per

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sisters and they're full sisters. And when you look the pictures,

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you know their full sisters.

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Speaker 1: The miracle of it all wasn't lost on Remy, Abby

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or their families. Two girls born in China, separated early,

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raised without knowing the truth of their connection and placed

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into a system where that relationship could have disappeared entirely,

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but it didn't. Instead, they find each other anyway, not

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as sisters, but as friends. They build a bond without

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knowing why. It feels natural. Then they're separated again, sent

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across the world through an adoption process that could have

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taken them anywhere, anywhere, and instead they end up twenty

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minutes apart, close enough to find each other again, close

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enough for the long lost truth to finally come to light.

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They're bond unbreakable sisters. For Sandra. There isn't a version

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of this story that feels like coincidence.

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Speaker 3: And nobody knew they were sisters. There was no reason

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to keep them together because nobody knew they were sisters,

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so they could have went anywhere, and then they're twenty

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minutes apart. I mean, I wouldn't even know how to

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do the math on that. But there's like to go

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from Guan Joe, nobody knowing their sisters, be given to

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an agency in Delaware, and then they end up in

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the suburbs of Nianapolis. I mean, it's just it was

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God doing it.

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Speaker 1: Even the first part of the story would have been

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enough two best friends from China reunited in America, living

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minutes apart. That would have been extraordinary. That wasn't the

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whole story. The deeper truth was something no one had

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been looking for, something hidden inside a childhood memory that

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didn't make sense until one July night. Remy and Abby

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had found each other again and again. And for Sandra,

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the house and whys may not make a lot of sense,

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but one thing she knows for sure, it's a miracle

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from God.

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Speaker 2: Wow, what an amazing story. That still gives me chills

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when I think about these sisters who had gone over

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seven thousand miles away and found each other.

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Speaker 1: I know at some point it stops feeling like coincidence

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and you just know there's something more. Yeah, and Remy

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and Abby they're still best friends today. You may be

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wondering why we didn't have Remy on the show, and

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it was actually Remy's mom who reached out to us,

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and Remy's very shy, she didn't feel comfortable coming on

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a podcast, but she was happy to have her mom

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share this story. And she also gave us a statement

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about what her relationship with Abby means to her. And so, Holly,

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will you read that sure.

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Speaker 2: She has always been a sister and a close friend

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to me, even before we found out we are biological sisters.

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God is amazing and has kept us close even halfway

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across the world. I don't think our relationship has changed

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much since finding out we are biological sisters, since we

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have always felt that way.

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Speaker 1: About each other. Isn't that so sweet? My gosh? I

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love that.

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Speaker 2: It's like they always knew and it's kind of like,

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as we know, Emily, there is just something about that

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sister bond.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I love that they were friends first.

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It's like you and I. We are sisters, but we

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are genuinely friends, and we have so much in common.

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we have the same sense of humor. We're both diet

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coke addicts, both have ADHD. Sorry y'all, it is true,

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but it makes it like, Honestly, I'm like, if you

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didn't know we were sisters and we happened to meet

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on the street, would we figure it out?

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Speaker 2: I think we would?

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Speaker 1: Actually, Like how could we not? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: But what I think makes this story even more miraculous

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than that they found each other is how they found

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each other and that they had been part of each

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other's lives all along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I just think that it's such a sweet mercy from God.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, something that I was thinking about is

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that Sandra's friend Robin, she was the first one to

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have this feeling like she was going to adopt Abby. Yeah,

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and then she didn't end up adopting Abby, And I'm like, well,

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why did she have that feeling? But I really truly

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believe she had that feeling about Abby so that she

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could bring Sandra to Remy. And then I also believed

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that Abby ended up with the family ultimately that she

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was supposed to be with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sandra, I think just needed to have that little

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nudge and initially to adopt Remy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then Jan who ended up adopting Abby, had a

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powerful experience helping her know she was supposed to adopt her.

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And initially Abby's name in the orphanage was Misty. So

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here's what Jan said happened.

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Speaker 3: She said she was in the shower and she prayed, God,

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if I'm supposed to get Misty, show me a miss

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And nobody knew she had prayed that. Jane said her

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son came running in the bathroom and said, mom, Mom,

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you got to come out and see the sky. And

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she said she went outside and saw the weirdest miss

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in the sky she'd ever saw, and that's why she

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got Missy Abby.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. I mean, both of these girls went through

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so much and I'm just grateful that they both have

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such amazing families.

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful too, and they did. They experienced so

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many hard times as orphans in China. And here's something

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that's just is heartbreaking that Sandra shared with us about

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the perception of orphans in China.

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Speaker 3: In China, you're looked down at as an orphan. You're

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looked down on, like even the teachers think they're bad luck.

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Speaker 4: There's parents that don't want their child to sit next

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to an orphan in class because they think they're bad luck.

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So Abby and Remy in China, being both orphans, you know,

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they had that. Remy told us that one time she

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got the best grade in the class one day and

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it made the teacher so mad because she was an orphan.

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He twisted her ear tilt blood.

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Speaker 1: So heartbreaking. I mean, imagine being told you're not even

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allowed to succeed and that you're unlucky. Yeah, it would

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be so hard been told you're bad luck.

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Speaker 2: But it's so beautiful that both Remy and Abby are

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doing well now and they are successful and are well adjusted.

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And I'm just so grateful that their mothers listen to

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God so that these two girls can be together again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. All right, Well, thank you everyone for

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joining us today. If you have a sister, pick up

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your phone, center text, give her hugs, end our message,

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Speaker 5: Well, and brothers too. We love our brothers too. They're

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cool too. Brothers too. Yes, we love our brothers too.

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And make sure you guys subscribe so you never miss

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Speaker 2: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for his light in your

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own lives