Denise still remembers the first phone conversation she had with the birth mother of her adopted daughter. She remembers how nervous she was, and she remembers the warnings people gave about adopting a mixed-race baby.

"Again, we didn't care. We had so much love in us that we wanted to share. We made a promise that we would not go the medical route for future children, and instead committed to adopting mixed children so they would share their ethnicity."

Denise and her husband now have three adopted children, and each is considered a blessing. Some say their kids are lucky to have them as parents, but Denise admits that she feels like the lucky one. Read more at DailyRecord.com.

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