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Harwood Couple Brings Colombian Girl To Md To Find New Family

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Colombia Orphan Visits Harwood, Unknowingly Seeking a Family

A Harwood couple is hosting an 11-year-old girl from Colombia for one month in hopes of finding her a home in America.

For the next 30 days, Harwood residents Tom Fridrich and Molly Mee are going to depend on Google Translate—a lot. On Monday afternoon, the married couple picked up an 11-year-old Colombian orphan girl from Dulles Airport in hopes of finding her a permanent home in America. Neither of the residents speak Spanish, and their preteen visitor—Dianna Patricia—doesn’t know English. But over the next month, Mee, her husband and her son Noah Fridrich, are spreading the word about their short-term visitor, hoping that a U.S. family will consider adopting the young girl. The big catch to all this? Dianna has no idea. Welcome to the Family In partnership with a program call KidSave, older orphans from foreign nations are brought to America in hopes of…

M T Harder

9:17 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Molly andTom, So kind of you to give Dianna such an important opportunity and Noah, too. Michelle   more ›

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