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Wow!

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I want to share with you an answer to a 5 year prayer. As most of you know, I spent the summer of 2004 in Bucharest, Romania at a privately ran, Christian orphanage. While I was there many of the children went to visit living relatives for a time. One such girl, Andreea, went to visit her aunt for a week. When she returned she brought her older brother Catallin back with her. Andreea was 14 and Catallin was 15 at the time. The aunt could not or would not have him in her home any longer. Catallin stayed at the orphanage for several weeks. I got to know him as we got to know the other children. He was a fun-loving, goofy, kind young man. He fit right in with the others and added to enjoyable times. Near the end of my time there, the orphanage director returned from a fundraising trip in the USA. She was very concerned by a 15 year old boy's presence at the orphanage. Not knowing all the details, I cannot say why she was so unwilling to have him there. The day before we left Catallin