just like trying to conceive a child of your own adopting a child comes with its
share of immense concerns hopes logistics and surprises
this was certainly the case for canadian couple Ron and Natalie Trek Rose who in
1997 decided they wanted to bring a child into their home their search led
them to our rod Romania where they met and fell in love with a 1 year old girl
named radical Lavinia Farkas Veronica had some health issues which sent Ron
and Nathalie on a quest to find some answers about her past and that's when
they made a shocking recovery many couples dream of starting their own
families but it's not always an easy thing to do
Ron and Natalie Trek Rose of Canada knew this better than anyone else
despite some challenges they knew they wanted to raise a child of their own no
matter what while they'd been devastated by the news that they wouldn't be able
to conceive on their own Ron and Natalie were determined to become parents and
they had plenty of other options at their disposal so they began the process
of adoption in 1997 the couple hoping to find the right child for their little
family travel to Iran Romania a city situated on the Meuse river in the
western part of the country that's where they first saw rodica Lavinia Farkas
she was only 1 yet she already had a mysterious past Ron and Natalie
instantly knew that Radhika with her ear-to-ear smile would be the perfect
addition to their home unfortunately this wasn't going to be a simple
adoption before they could get started the couple received some bad news
even though she was just a year old Radhika was severely malnourished she
suffered from rickets and had weak bones from a lack
vitamin D it was pretty obvious that she was in need of some serious help
unfortunately cases like radicals weren't unique in Romania in 1990 the
country was under the control of a dictator named Nicolae Ceausescu and he
banned contraception of any kind throughout the country with catastrophic
results with so many poor people in the country at the time it meant that a lot
of parents conceived children they couldn't afford and they had to give
them up fortunate children ended up in orphanages the less fortunate once died
from malnutrition or were abandoned was this one had landed ronica in the
orphanage in the first place perhaps her mother couldn't afford the care
necessary to properly nourish her newborn child questions dominated this
baby's past and Natalie in Ron wanted answers Ron and Natalie wanted to know
everything they couldn't about their new daughter's background the problem was
that it was also notoriously hard to get hold of any documentation on orphans in
Romania at that time and so the digging began Natalie and Ron clung to every bit
of information they could find on Radhika
but in the pre-internet era there wasn't much to be found then the couple on
governed Radhika's family tree and they found that the girl's biological mother
had actually given away more than one child see somewhere out there
veronica actually had an older sister strangely this sister had been sent to
an entirely different orphanage from then on Ron and Natalie recognized that
they had a new mission as the saying goes the more the merrier
and Natalie Enron must have been thinking just that from the moment they
learned about Roddick his sister they were determined to find and adopt her
too after an exhaustive search Ron and Natalie finally found radicals older
sister whose name was Jack Anna they were shots it just drama alike the
sisters looked they could have been twins without a second thought
the happy couple adopted her making the trek roses officially a family of four
back home in Canada with two new baby girls sisters Radhika and Joanna
Ron and Natalie made yet another discovery about the young girl's family
tree they had six of their siblings but of course Natalie and Ron wouldn't track
them down too would they Ron and Natalie exhausted their resources trying to find
those six other siblings but without a paper trail from Romania it was nearly
impossible though siblings still remain a mystery to this day
but maybe that was better for the small family from Canada eight kids would have
been a handful even though they weren't able to find the other siblings Ron and
Natalie were determined to complete their dream they changed their new
daughters names - Cheyenne Anna became Sophie and radical was now Danielle
something didn't feel right about the change though taking two little girls
from their home country and then erasing all signs of their heritage might have
been the appropriate route for a band of conquerors but not Ron and Natalie to
preserve the girl's history and heritage they turned Sophie and Danielle's former
Romanian names into the girls new middle names Sophie and Danielle's story turned
a lot of heads how often do you learn about hopeful parents traveling halfway
around the world and managing to adopt separated baby sisters in fact one
documentary filmmaker who heard about their story made a film about it though
it's been lost to time years later as an adult
Sophie watched the film and decided to make
Internet friendly she edited the full film into a shorter version that she
uploaded to YouTube where it reached a tremendous amount of people the edited
videos success inspired Sophie so much that she actually decided to pursue
photography when it came time for her to enroll at a university she knew exactly
what she wanted to claim was her major the documentary also inspired Sophie to
find out more about her and her sisters pasts she planned a trip to Romania and
though she would have liked to find her birth mother she didn't count on it
documentation was still scarce even after all of those years as for Danielle
she planned to join Sophie on her trip to Romania sometime in 2018 in the
meantime she planned to study for her bachelor's degree in addition to her
picture-perfect story she still lived near her sister when Ron and Natalie
flew to Romania hoping to adopt one child they didn't know that they'd be
coming home with to all they knew was that they wanted a family and they went
through great leaps to make it possible obviously
it paid off it was a good thing that Ron and Natalie were ready for all the
trials and tribulations that came with starting a family because they sure
faced quite a few surely they were happy they did
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