If everything had gone according to plan, Kristen and Kenny Anderson and their 4-year-old daughter Brooklyn would be on their way home from China by now with a new addition to their family: another 4-year-old girl whom they've named Hannah.
"There's always roller coaster rides, but when you feel like you're on the very end of that roller coaster ride and you're so close to it and then it's pulled out from underneath you again, it's hard," Kristen Anderson told CNN.The Andersons are one of several American families whose adoption plans have been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
Karla Thrasher, Asia program director for the Christian adoption agency Lifeline Children's Services, said Lifeline had about eight adoptive families — including the Andersons — who were ready to fly to China when the coronavirus outbreak hit. Noah and Ivy Cleveland of McDonough, Georgia, were supposed to leave for China last Friday to bring home their adoptive daughter, Ruby.
"This was the first time in my life that I truly wept to the point of being sick in my body. I just laid over her bed, over her crib that I had prepared for her and looked up at the pictures on the wall and her clothes in her closet and just understanding that this is not happening right now," Ivy Cleveland told CNN.
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