Haitian adoptees united with U.S. families

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A harrowing effort to evacuate dozens of Haitian orphans to the United States started with some unexpectedly good news in those first terrible hours after the massive earthquake.

Somehow God’s Littlest Angels orphanage in the mountains above Port-au-Prince had survived the destructive shaking intact and all 150 of its charges were safe.

Over the next 10 days, U.S. families who were already in the process of adopting 83 of the children organized a frantic effort to bring them to Miami, reaching out to politicians, humanitarian aid workers and the news media.

On Friday, a jetliner delivered the U.S.-bound orphans to the city’s international airport, uniting the children, ranging from newborns to 6-year-olds, with their adoptive families.

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