A kid walks into a church and asks for something no human should ever have to ask for: a family.

As an adoptive parent, watching this wasn’t easy. But you just have to be human to feel this teen’s longing for something so basic and so necessary.

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Oct 24, 2013

If you’d like to learn what happened after Davion’s story spread, you can

read an update. Not everyone is able to offer what children like Davion need, but there are other ways to help.

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