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BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Guatemala City
In a small private orphanage in this sprawling capital city, a group of 3-year-olds sit quietly, in little plastic chairs, watching a Shrek video. As I enter the room, 18 wide eyes turn toward me, as if they are all waiting for someone. In a way they are.
These are some of Guatemala's thousands of abandoned and at-risk children. There are armies of American families eager to adopt them. Yet they remain institutionalized because of an adoption law that the Guatemalan government passed in 2007 with strong backing from the U.S. State Department and Unicef.
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