The Fortsons of Conway, Ark., adopted a child from China who was born with a cleft lip and palate. The story starts with a description of the surgery to repair Mia Fortson’s cleft lip, then goes back in time to tell the tale of her journey from her birthplace in rural China to her new home in Arkansas, along with the trials her parents and she go through to get the surgeries needed to repair her birth defects.
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