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Home is Where our Story Begins!
Russ & Betsy Ridgway
July 15, 1984
Cameron and Sean
at Adoption Meeting.
We would be Cameron's parents
two years later!
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Sean was so socialable, he would talk to anybody!
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.
Devastating cancerous brain tumor diagnosis at 8 months old. Prognosis: 2% chance to live.
August 1993
Aunt Debbie and Sean.
A year of home care, 1994.
Nurse Julene's famous nugget of hope, "Someone has to be in that 2%."
Sean did not display the usual fears for his age.
Deep joy after second surgery.
January 1994
Halloween 1994
Stunning quilt for Sean
made by Susanna Bond.
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.
First Christmas with newly adoption Cameron, age 4 and Sean, age 2, 1995.
Ready for bed after visiting Aunt Pam and Uncle Don.
First Family Portrait, 1995
by Paul Litzinger
Cameron and Elizabeth
June 2023
Brent, our oldest son
2022
Sean and the Grands!
June 2023
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