The Goodness of America
Twice Chosen, Twice Blessed
Five years ago, Joseph and Shanna Weight of Elk Ridge, Utah, adopted a baby boy named Milo, and three years later, they gave birth to their biological son, Nash, now two. The Weights felt their family was complete, but their minds changed following a phone call. The agency through which the Weights adopted Milo, A Act of Love Adoptions, called them with some big news.
“They contacted us and said, ‘Milo is going to be a big brother’ and asked if we would consider adopting his sister,’” Joseph Weight recalled. “At the time I was like, ‘That’s a big one.’”
Shanna Weight was traveling out of the country when the agency contacted Joseph, Good Morning America reported, but her initial thought upon learning of the call was that it was not going to be a possibility. Very quickly, however, she began to reconsider. “After the initial shock wore off I thought, ‘It would be so nice to have them raised together,’” she recalled in June.
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