Oklahoma Adoption Story

[S]he epitomized her given name: Zhuo, in Mandarin, means outstanding or excellent. To these biased Okies who had traveled 7,700 miles for her, she was that.

And suddenly she was ours.

The child named Yu Zhuo, who became Abbey Zhuo Grace Thornton later that afternoon, is among 7,000 Chinese orphans - almost all of them girls - who will be adopted this year by Americans.

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