Wonder Dog - A Golden Retriever Reaches A Raging Boy
In May 1999, Donnie Kanter Winokur, 43, a writer and multimedia producer, and her husband, Rabbi Harvey Winokur, 49, beheld the son of their dreams, the child infertility denied them. Andrey, a pale dark-eyed 1-year-old in a cotton onesie, held in a standing position by a caregiver, appeared in a short videotape recorded in a Russian orphanage. If the couple liked the little boy, they could begin the legal process of adopting him. They liked the little boy very much.
Four months later, the Winokurs flew to Russia from their home in Atlanta to adopt Andrey, whom they renamed Iyal, and to adopt an unrelated little girl two days younger, whom they named Morasha. All four appear in another orphanage video: the beaming new parents on the happiest day of their lives, the toddlers passive in the arms of the strangers cradling and kissing them. In August 1999, the family arrived home to congratulations, gifts and helium balloons.
Sometime after their 3rd birthdays, our wonderful fairy tale of adopting two Russian babies began to show cracks, said Donnie Winokur, who is now 55.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/magazine/wonder-dog.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
It truly is amazing what dogs and people can do together.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)I just found this article through Google news. I was able to read it without logging in. I even closed all my browsers and started over. I tried the link I posted too. Sorry Moonwalk, I don't know how to fix this.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Beautiful story.
shanti
(21,675 posts)thanks for posting it