A Photo Finish

Oh, my, what joy!

Oh, my, what joy!

Yaphet's nonna with her arm around Elianna, Gabriel is on Mark's lap and Ruthi is in the middle of it all.

Yaphet's nonna with her arm around Elianna, Gabriel is on Mark's lap and Ruthi is in the middle of it all.

"So Yaphet became our son. Forever. For all practical purposes, when we returned to the orphanage that day, absolutely nothing had changed. But everything had changed. We were not going to visit 23 orphans, but 22 orphans and one son." Mark Brucato as he and his wife, Ruthi, and their children Elianna and Gabriel welcomed Yaphet forever into their family.