Haitian Orphans Survived Quake

Haitian orphans survived quake...


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For two days, as stories of unfathomable suffering poured out of Haiti, three families in Pella, Iowa, prayed their children were alive.

On Thursday, a phone call from the ruined capital, Port-au-Prince, answered their prayers. Five children who were in the process of being adopted by the families had survived the earthquake.

"It's unbelievable," said Mandy Poulter, a mother of five who, with her husband Matt Poulter, was in the final stage of adopting a 4-year-old Haitian girl named Maya. After three years of bureaucracy, they needed only some documents from the U.S. Embassy to bring Maya home. But after Tuesday's earthquake flattened much of the city, they feared they might have lost her.

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