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Show f2B 'Lakeside Review North, Wednesday; July 18, 1984 From India With Love Adopted Children Complete Family sitting in her lap. The story of APRIL ADAMS Review Staff KAYSVILLE The true pioneers of Kaysville are a 7 and a respectively. With dark eyes and shiny black hair, Sonali Marie and Sara Nitin Stewart were some of the first adopted children from India in the community. ' 'The proud parents, who have been married for more than 1 1 years, Alan and Jane Stewart say the children have completed their life. They have made everything so much better for us just by be- ing the way they are, Ms. Stew- art said, as she looked fondly at a wriggling and energetic Sam off evil, 'i The visiting Indiap woman at- - ' Ive always thought of my so once observed .Sonali as she child as very special because of refused the offer of candy front her past circumstances and all another child, said Ms. Stewart. She told me that Sonali was the other people who must have a good little Indian child, since thought she was special, too," they will refuse anything from a said Ms. Stewart. While in India, someone stranger unless their mother bought Sonali a little basket of takes it first and then gives it to thrift-typ- e clothes. The un- them. But its interesting, because known Indian woman who cared for her at the orphanage wrote Sam is not like that, she said. the Stewarts a little note of what Heavy stipulations were the chiljd had been eating and placed On Sonalis adoption, said, because it was a what she should eat. There were also several photo- first time thing .with her. We graphs taken of Sonali as she lay were dealing with a new attorney on a blanket. This is unusual, from Bombay, she explained. At the time, the Stewarts since it is lucky to get one small picture of a child before they were the only couple who had come over, .commented Ms. applied that fit the requirements laid down for the adoption: they Stewart. Well always treasure these were under 30 years of age; things, she said, folding the healthy and had no. children. Boy, are we glad, now, Ms. note and the clothes up carefullStewart said, with a laughing yHowever, when Sonali was glance at her daughter. Sam came to the Stewarts first discovered on the orphanage steps, she had a small black when he was about 8 months dot on her forehead, that had old. He was bom in Goa, a city been rubbed on with charcoal, south of Bombay, of an unwed mother who came to an orphanMs. Stewart believes. She also had two tiny braceage and nursing home there for lets on; a dark red plastic one help. She gave the child up so he beaded and a could go to a better home, and bracelet. An Indian women who visited chose the Stewart family from a the family once told the Stewarts number of family pictures that that the baby was obviously were sent to her by the adoption d agency. by someone. We heard that she looked at She told us that the black dot was to keep evil eyes off the the picture taken of us with Sonchild. The red bracelet was a ali and said This child looks like she should be his sister. This wish that when Sonali married, she she die before her husband. That is the family he goes to, said.is considered an honor in India, Sonali likes to pat herself on , commented Ms. Stewart. The beaded bracelet was to the back now and say that she really must have loved an who her. the childrens adoptions goes back years, Ms. Stewart said. We discussed everything thoroughly and decided we both wanted to adopt children from India. There was no real reason why. Sonali, now 7, was adopted through Childrens House International in Salt Lake City when she was 9 months old. The agency deals mainly with children from India or Guatemala and find homes for 12 to a year in Utah, Ms. Stewart said. Abandoned on the steps of an orphanage in Bombay when she was 10 days old, Sonali was cared for by an unknown wom- - , Ms.-Stewa- -- black-and-purp- le well-love- . - the children gives Alan and Jane Stewart a chance to share their lives. ADOPTING government will not allow them out of the country. Both the Stewart children are now naturalized American citizens. Although Sonali and Sant both say they want to be like their American friends, the Stewftrts believe in teaching them about India whenever they can, since it is important the children learn about their country, they said. About a week ago, Ms. Stewart took Sam to a local pool for swimming lessons. He sat on the edge of the pool and. quietly looked at the people around him. After a while, he looked up at Ms. Stewart and said in a solemn tone, Mama, some people have black hair. Sonali means gold in India, but they arent sure what Nitin means, Ms. Stewart explained. They added Marie as Sonalis middle name, and Alan chose Sam as Nitins first name, he said. But the couple firmly agree that if the children want to search for their natural parents, that they will help in the efforts. We will go back to the place they were born and help them trace down anything we can find-,- . Ms. Stewart said. . Although the. Stewarts agree there is not much chance of finding them in a highly-pop- u lated country like India. Right now; they just want to be like their friends, Ms. Stewart observed. Sonali comes home sometimes after playing with the neighborhood children and tells her mother she wished she had blonde hair like all my friends r have. She went through this stage for awhile, wishing she could get a sunburn like the other kids of skin. But wanting she is outgrowing it, she said. Sam, on the other hand, is just beginning to realize the. differences in human brought Sam to us, said Ms. Stewart as Sonali, hearing this, leaned back and patted herself on the back. They definitely look upon each other as real brother and sister, Alan Stewart said. The adoption process is a highly complicated one, filled with uncertainty and overwhelming paperwork, Ms. Stew- art recalls. You have to fill out immigrations paperwork, have letters of; reference, papers saying youre not on welfare, and papers wanting to know every de- -. tail about you and your spouse, she said. The children also mu$t be at least 3 months old or the Indian - . - , . - f' It light-color- fRT lifestyle ?0MlrG a orphanage; f a Three-year-o- provides the children they might not have known in family Photo by Rodney Wright SAM AND SONALI display some paperwork needed to become American. ed ld beings. 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