Amy Thorpe said when she and her husband, Jarrod, met a Ukrainian girl named Julia, last year, they knew they wanted to adopt her.
We fell in love with her, said the 33-year-old McDonough mother of three. Last year, she said she and her husband developed a mutual desire to adopt a child.
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