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Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their hom

Rodney Atkins

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Rodney Atkins describes how he was initially adopted twice but returned to the orphanage due to health problems. Finally, his third adoptive parents successfully took him in and became his permanent mom and dad.

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