By Michelle Matthews
This is Alabama
In a photo she shared on her Facebook page, Jennifer Hays smiles brightly as she holds two squirming babies. “I am literally holding in my arms the answers to so many prayers,” she wrote, describing her daughter, Ava Joye, and her son, Harvey Ross.
Since Harvey was born almost a year after Jennifer and her husband, Matt, adopted Ava, the two have been inseparable – Harvey, at 18 months, blond and blue-eyed and long-legged like his daddy, and Ava, whose thick black hair is almost as long as she is tall and who wears little lilac-colored glasses.
Ava was born in California to Chinese parents. After her birth parents learned that their baby would have multiple physical abnormalities, the family traveled to the United States on legal visas prior to her birth in order to get the medical attention she needed. They intended to deliver the baby and return to China, but they felt that Ava’s special needs were too severe to be treated there.
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