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Woman hopeful as adoption agency revived

December 2, 2009

A New Brunswick woman says her dream of adopting two children from Ethiopia has been revived along with the international adoption agency she had been dealing with.

Debbie Thomas, of New Maryland, was one of hundreds of people who had filed mountains of paperwork and paid thousands of dollars to Ontario-based Imagine Adoption when the company suddenly shut down last summer, leaving them in the lurch.

But the bankrupt agency has since been restructured under the same name with new leadership and has signed up enough interested clients to proceed, Thomas said.

“We needed at least 200 families [to file new retainer agreements by the end of November] to be able to continue. We just got word from them that they had received 246 families,” she said. “So we know we’re clear to go.

“It’s a huge, huge relief, what we’ve all been waiting for. So, yeah, we were ecstatic to find out.”

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