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Welcome to my Family Room!

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Here you will see photos added weekly that help tell the story in my new book,

The Song of My Hope.

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Russ and Betsy Ridgway, July 15, 1984

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Bringing Sean home December 31, 1992

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Sean was so socialable, he would talk to anybody!
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Traveling to my parent's home with two-month old baby Sean

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Russ, Betsy and Baby Sean

with Candace & Brian, Biological parents.

February 1993

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Aunt Arlene with Sean just a few months before surgery.
Sean was often sad before surgery. Notice how his feet turn in. He is wearing his corrective shoes (right) while Aunt Pam entertains him at home.
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Devastating cancerous brain tumor diagnosis at 8 months old. Prognosis: 2% chance to live.
August 1993
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Deep joy after second surgery. 
January 1994
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Nurse Julene's famous nugget of hope, "Someone has to be in that 2%."

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Aunt Debbie and Sean.
A year of home care, 1994.
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Sean did not display the usual fears for his age.

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Halloween 1994
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Stunning quilt for Sean
made by Susanna Bond.
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Sean's adoption ceremony at home because of fragile immune system. Attending judge also had
adopted children.  Fall 1994
Sean's adoption ceremony, surrounded by family and friends.

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