When Chloe Cohen returns to school this year, her "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" story is likely to top anything her classmates will have to share. While others traveled to amusement parks, national monuments and relatives' homes, Chloe was visiting her home country and former foster parents.

"The journey took off thanks to a mighty convergence of curiosity and restlessness at the Cohen household this year," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

"Chloe had been asking more questions about Guatemala [her birth country]. ... At the same time, Amy Cohen, a world geography teacher at Julia R. Masterman Middle and High School in Spring Garden, yearned to travel again."

Amy and her daughter found an organization -- The Ties Program -- that arranges trips for adoptees to their home countries. The Cohens spent two weeks in Guatemala learning about the culture and meeting the foster family that cared for Chloe during the first seven months of her life.

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