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Another 2 years passed, and against my utterances about NEVER wanting to have
to go through all that paperwork, wait time, stress, and expenitures, as
Britney Spears was fond of saying, Oops, we did it again! ;-)

Now having the start of a young family already, we wanted to make especially
sure any other adoptions would work to our favor. We located another agency
that was doing something interesting. They had a large group of children from
Bogota, Colombia, who would be traveling to the US to stay for an almost 3 week
 period of time. They were told it was just a trip to getaway from their
orphanges, etc, although we think the older children knew better.

We located two more girls, not biologically related, both 12 going on 13. They
gave us an interpreter to use at the airport, so we could have a short dialog
before taking them home. Neither my wife or I had taken any Spanish in our
schoolings, so it was very similar to the Russian endeavor in the communication
 department, but those were the coolest three weeks of our lives.

The girls then had to return to Colombia, hoping to see us come there and bring
 them home as ours, but it would be TEN MONTHS before we made that trip. We
actually stayed in Colombia for 7 weeks (Mother's Day to 2 weeks after Father's
 Day). We did so much during that time, making sure the girls could see as much
 of their home country as they could before becoming US citizens.

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