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This week on Beauty is Rising, Kelli recounts the adoptions process she experienced when adopting her daughter from Ethiopia.  This month marks the two year anniversary of Kelli’s family bringing their daughter home and being reunited as a family of five.   Kelli talks about the intimate details and struggles surrounding the almost 7 year process of getting matched and then bringing their daughter home. The first four and a half years were spent trying to be matched to a child.  They decided to switch agencies at this point, and were matched with a child almost immediately, but then had to fight to bring their daughter home for a little over 2 years until they were finally able to do so.   Through this process Kelli has learned so much and now passionately shares her experiences in hopes that she can help other adoptive moms find the community and wisdom they need to love and care for their own adopted children.