A Utah couple was about to end a six-year process to adopt children in Haiti, when the country started seeing violence so dangerous that it declared a state of emergency.
<p>OREM — Of all the rooms in Cherry Stewart's Orem home, it is her kids' room that just might be her favorite.
 &quot;It is hard because sometimes we go a couple of weeks without internet connection, and sometimes we go a couple of weeks without hearing from the orphanage.
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