When Tina Riedel and Deborah Smith adopted HIV-positive India at five days old, they faced the likelihood that their daughter would die young. ''All the books were very much geared towards a child not making it through the teens," remembers Smith, 53. The women decided that they would be the best parents they could, says Riedel, 50. ''And when it's ... (Full article: 522 words)
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