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TODD ADAMSON was known to the nuns at Sacred Heart Orphanage in DaNang where he was left on the doorstep 30 years ago as Truong Thang. His adoptive mother, Marilyn Adamson, knew that he was the son of an American GI and a Vietnamese woman and that he had polio and worms when they brought him home to Harleysville, Pennsylvania. He met and fell in love with an adoptee on the Vietnam trip. |
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LEE STEFIN, was born Le Thi Hiep in Saigon in 1967 to a Vietnamese woman and an African-American GI. She lived with her mother until the age of nine and was responsible for much of the care of her two younger siblings. She was adopted into a family in La Habra, California, and now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she works as a nurse. She returned to Vietnam with her husband, Ardies and now plans to introduce her estranged birth mother to her children. |
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JODI LEE WHITE started life as Ho Bich Ngoc in Vung Tau, Vietnam. She was adopted in Angleton, Texas but currently lives in Los Angeles, and is engaged to be married. Jodi works as a corporate flight attendant on private jets, and is also launching a non-profit organization for cancer patients called A Light of Hope Foundation as a founder and executive director. In her spare time, Jodi is a singer and songwriter. "Hold On," the final song in the film, was written and performed by Jodi. She is actively looking for her birth mother, and is planning another trip to Vietnam for a follow-up search. |
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SAUL TRAN CORNWALL was born Tran La, with a cleft palette and cleft lip and was only five days old when his mother died. Unable to care for him, his father brought him to Holt's orphanage, and was adopted by Judy and Jack Cornwall of Portland, Oregon. Saul is currently Heritage Camp director and a social worker for post-adoption services with Holt International in Eugene, Oregon. He is planning a trip to Vietnam with his fiancee. |
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ELIZABETH SOWLES, adopted in Portland, Oregon, was a tiny girl when she left Vietnam as Nguyen Thanh Xuan 26 years ago. She cried during her first trip back to Tu Du Maternity Hospital in Saigon where she was left in October, 1974. Liz has written and spoken frequently about her emotional trip back. |
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PATRICIA SNIDER, born Nguyen Thi Tram, was one of the many Vietnamese children stricken with polio. She was adopted by a large Mormon family in Salt Lake City, UT, where she grew up. On the trip back to Vietnam, she was reunited with Janice Annal, a Scottish nurse who cared for her at Holt's Center for Malnourished Infants in DaNang. She currently lives in Mesa, AZ. |
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ARYN LOCKHART survived the crash of the first Operation Babylift flight and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She sought out Colonel Regina Aune, medical director of the C-5 cargo plane, who rescued many victims at the crash site despite her own serious injuries. The two have become fast friends and are seen revisiting the C-5 with the pilot in PRECIOUS CARGO. |
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JENNIFER ARIAS was found on the doorstep at Queen of Peace Orphanage in Saigon and named Phuong Hong Lan by the Catholic nuns there. She and Todd Adamson felt an immediate attraction when they met on the trip to Vietnam and were married on November 3, 2001, in the city where she was adopted, Virginia Beach, VA. Jodi White sang the theme song from PRECIOUS CARGO as they danced after the ceremony. |
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