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Babies from same orphanage adopted by Stratham neighbors: Stratham residents Joe and Melissa Mastin lived within walking distance of Kevin Stickney and his wife, Michelle Dunklee, but the couples had never met. Both families had been working for more than a year with the same Brookline, Mass., adoption agency, China Adoption with Love, and had completed the application process. They first met last fall at a meeting of the Seacoast China Families Support Group while waiting for babies to be referred to them.