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Mass adoption ceremonies held in Nassau, Suffolk
Quick ReadThe county holds the Adoption Day festivities to highlight the happy endings to stories that sometimes begin badly.
Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy | It was Adoption Day in Nassau County as 2 1/2-year-old Branson Minichino gets a big kiss from his former foster family member, 17-year-old, Andreina Diaz-Perez. (Nov. 20, 2009)
Little baby Niah entered Irene Cassagnol's heart well before she ever saw the child.
"It was love at first phone call," Cassagnol, 33, a teacher's assistant from Hempstead, said with a smile as she recalled the call from Nassau County's social services agency about the newborn who needed a home.
Cassagnol and her husband, Alex, an New York City police officer, fostered Niah for almost...
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