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National Adoption Month raises awareness

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    Shining a light on the need for adoptive families

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Thanks so much I love this segment our next guest is the owner or -- Orlando Magic you've seen appear before but he's not your top basketball today and -- he's talking about adoption.

November is national adoption month and Pat Williams is the father.

A fourteen.

Adopted children he joins us with his biological daughter Karen when -- It's also fantastic singer and she's here because she has put together this beautiful son to honor.

National adoption month tell us about it can -- us oncologists may -- that's included on my brand new record and that.

It's a personal one for me obviously because of my family story our family's story and my record.

Company felt like it was important to include on this record it's called just may be in it.

It says you just may be the answer to prayer the -- to -- -- needing you just may be the only happened someone ever CN and that's what adoption is all about one family.

Saying yes to one child and changing my life forever and there are so many canes who need that -- and Stanley.

Mean pat I respect you so much and so many of millions other people do because you've decided you and your wife decided to bring fourteen children.

Into your life along with your biological children -- That was ten year period Gretchen 1983 in 1983.

I wish I could tell you there was a huge master plan here.

But we just had a hard time saying no.

You know we would hear about these two are these four from the Philippines -- Romania fell open and all of a sudden the orphans are coming out of here and we just said we can do that we need him to -- Four Filipino boys let's just do it -- And so I that's the only answer and give you we never said Darren -- the cost the 80000 dollar a year food bills and the one year when sixteen of morals teenagers at the same time.

I think I know.

You're you're probably thinking to yourself what I -- I -- -- I want to listen to a bit of your son because people can find it on YouTube on your new CD.

-- -- And of course those -- the faces of some of the children that need to be.

Up for adoption and there -- -- -- -- and I noted that you as the oldest of biological child he so that you felt like mommy.

All of these out of it and a big sister -- -- -- amazing is that you've learned personal responsibility in life and life is not all of you.

Absolutely -- in a family as big as mine.

You know I was we learn responsibility at a very young age and that it's really helped me to understand that there's there's a bigger world out there you know it really is not about us I mean.

And she made trips she went to Romania Romania to help bring those little -- home and now she made a trip to Guatemala and you you were.

Bouncing around pretty has won a ten year old.

I'll be around 1011 unveiled it it changes your perspective you know and they -- -- that a lot more thankful and and then our parents showed us what it meant to give -- had an amazing family Karen Williams on the use CD thanks so much for being here that -- to be -- great things and it's actually right back.