U.S. families celebrate children's ties to Romania
Submitted on December 9, 2003 - 1:00am.
Ruxandra Giura - Fall 2003
WASHINGTON -- Five-year-old Laura Robak kept running up and down the stairs at the ornate Romanian Embassy. Every now and then she stopped to ask her mother: "When is Santa coming?"
Soon she was playing with some of the other 80 children at the Christmas party Saturday. Like her, they had all been adopted by American families who traveled to Romania to find and adopt children over a dozen years.
“When I first saw her, I thought she was very beautiful,” said Linda Robak of Wilton, Conn., who adopted the little girl she calls Lala in May 2001 from the Romanian town Sfantu-Gheorghe, following a six-month legal adoption process.
Soon she was playing with some of the other 80 children at the Christmas party Saturday. Like her, they had all been adopted by American families who traveled to Romania to find and adopt children over a dozen years.
“When I first saw her, I thought she was very beautiful,” said Linda Robak of Wilton, Conn., who adopted the little girl she calls Lala in May 2001 from the Romanian town Sfantu-Gheorghe, following a six-month legal adoption process.
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