Millville woman's agonizing wait for adoption ends with happy homecoming
By EDWARD VAN EMBDEN
Staff Writer
Published: Saturday, March 22, 2008
MILLVILLE - There's a light-up Valentine's Day heart still hanging in the window facing the street. On
the threshold to the dining room, standing out against the country home
decor, is a Christmas tree with recently opened presents underneath. Tommi
Lynn Sawyer's goal when she boarded a flight back to the United States
in October without her legally adopted daughter was to get Anabelle
home before Christmas. She couldn't, and for five months the decorations stayed up. After all that time, it was a simple e-mail
upholding visa approvals by the State Department, sent by U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, that brought Sawyer's child home
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