<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8522665008846086199</id><updated>2024-10-02T16:25:11.081-06:00</updated><category term="Ukraine"/><category term="adoption"/><category term="orphan"/><category term="teen"/><title type='text'>A Voice for Orphans</title><subtitle type='html'>Don&#39;t ask God to break your heart for what breaks HIS unless you mean it!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ann-orphans.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8522665008846086199/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ann-orphans.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10232412156715889134</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLi-WcxJ9twy4_ve2b0QyAc3-MfRVfq_2SSzPwJqvlRNA1Rn5NcfoFWkSmVzS7vhXwe1KotBqGTKo0Go3c01AOlsGTegrw-PFYxLQzCydwIqxJSU0eXurp_4gdkTM6og/s220/10615424_10203284796658433_619036692129653156_n.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8522665008846086199.post-9008025822222897109</id><published>2014-08-14T14:24:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2014-08-14T14:25:18.965-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="orphan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="teen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ukraine"/><title type='text'>Valya, a Sweet Teen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;A mom visiting and adopting from V&#39;s orphanage raves about her: &quot;It&#39;s not easy to adopt a teenager. But Valya seems different. She&#39;s nice and quiet. Very polite. Does not demand anything. She&#39;s beautiful and really smart!&quot; She sent this picture today! Look how precious she is!!&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDk4ht_sdA34kSgYaDVlVD9RshyphenhyphenYG5fmnFZUxyrNaEWCOr34a458KiHaDYXsimUeVW3YHTnm3o2h7qlMsL1ZzCfGYY925bzQhyphenhyphenGqoILqDrFq_y5cwdhcLu-a68SxwkbidvFGx-S6JMoNHS/s640/blogger-image-1489664173.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDk4ht_sdA34kSgYaDVlVD9RshyphenhyphenYG5fmnFZUxyrNaEWCOr34a458KiHaDYXsimUeVW3YHTnm3o2h7qlMsL1ZzCfGYY925bzQhyphenhyphenGqoILqDrFq_y5cwdhcLu-a68SxwkbidvFGx-S6JMoNHS/s640/blogger-image-1489664173.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ann-orphans.blogspot.com/feeds/9008025822222897109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ann-orphans.blogspot.com/2014/08/valya-sweet-teen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8522665008846086199/posts/default/9008025822222897109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8522665008846086199/posts/default/9008025822222897109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ann-orphans.blogspot.com/2014/08/valya-sweet-teen.html' title='Valya, a Sweet Teen!'/><author><name>Ann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10232412156715889134</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLi-WcxJ9twy4_ve2b0QyAc3-MfRVfq_2SSzPwJqvlRNA1Rn5NcfoFWkSmVzS7vhXwe1KotBqGTKo0Go3c01AOlsGTegrw-PFYxLQzCydwIqxJSU0eXurp_4gdkTM6og/s220/10615424_10203284796658433_619036692129653156_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDk4ht_sdA34kSgYaDVlVD9RshyphenhyphenYG5fmnFZUxyrNaEWCOr34a458KiHaDYXsimUeVW3YHTnm3o2h7qlMsL1ZzCfGYY925bzQhyphenhyphenGqoILqDrFq_y5cwdhcLu-a68SxwkbidvFGx-S6JMoNHS/s72-c/blogger-image-1489664173.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8522665008846086199.post-6866416821446065671</id><published>2014-08-12T11:49:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2014-08-12T11:50:35.520-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Home By Christmas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple;&quot;&gt;Could her dream of a family come true?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Does your Heart Long for a daughter?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Is someone missing from your family?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #a64d79; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, FreeSerif, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;userContent&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text_exposed_show&quot;&gt;This is &quot;V&quot; she is 13 years old and is HIV positive.&amp;nbsp; I have yet been able to spend a lot of time with her but myself and my facilitator were asked to help her find a family.&amp;nbsp; She has expressed how she would love one as well as her caretakers.&amp;nbsp; She is very shy.&amp;nbsp; I have not had time to sit alone with her one on one.&amp;nbsp; But I will say that she hangs out with many of the girls I know.&amp;nbsp; She has a very calm demeanor and self controlled.&amp;nbsp; Very polite!&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:anngladhart@yahoo.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Email ME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Prepare now to host with Marina&#39;s Kids for Christmas 2014!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Check out the Marina&#39;s Kids Facebook page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/MarinasKids&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/MarinasKids&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Marina&#39;s Kids Website:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marinaskids.org/&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt; http://marinaskids.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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