Kimberley Ann Carpenter and I were married on July 2, 2014, we both had grown children, and sheproudly became grandmother Kimmie to my granddaughters. Kim and I talked about our life stories, andmy heart became obsessed with the fact that she had lived in an orphanage as an eight- month- oldinfant, until her sixth birthday. Kim’s social worker had tried to place her in foster homes, but theorphanage was the only home she had ever known, so she had difficulty adjusting, and always returnedto the children’s home. While at the orphanage, Kim remembers spending her days playing with a bigdoll house that had a little plastic father, mother, brother, sister, and dog. She loved that little family somuch that when adopted in 1962 by Forrest and Olwyn Carpenter, The Chambliss Home for Children lether take the little toy family with her.In 1983, following the birth of Kim’s son Kyle, she…

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