Sunday, December 26, 2004

Local Stories

Adoption like a fairy tale for the Huntsmans: Five years ago Tuesday, Governor-elect Jon Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye, brought their new baby home from China to join their family. "She is our greatest Christmas present ever," says Mary Kaye.

A Christmas Decision: The Zinskys' quest for a family led them from Homewood to Beijing, from Chicago's skyscrapers to a dirt road in China.

DNA helps adoptees in a foreign land find family links: On a recent Sunday afternoon, 10-year-old Anna Hinkeldey and Emily Shields were together as sisters in Los Angeles' Chinatown. For weeks they had been counting the days until this three-day weekend—the families' first get-together since they heard the DNA results.


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