After Losing His Wife, He Adopted Nine Abandoned Baby Girls — Forty-Six Years Later, The World Was Left Speechless

That year, the family gathered for a special photograph.

Richard sat in a large armchair.

Around him stood nine remarkable women.

Teachers.

Nurses.

Artists.

Mothers.

Professionals.

Leaders.

Women admired by their communities.

Women who might never have known one another if not for one man’s decision decades earlier.

Cameras flashed.

Reporters arrived.

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