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the story of the Bolander family. They're from Kansas City and have a rather large family.

Here's faith with the story.

Randy and Kelsey Bollender have 10 kids, ranging from the age of 27 years old to 5 years old. Jackson, Grayson, Zion, Zoe, Anna, Mercy, Piper, Creed, Cadence, and Scout.

Six of the Bolander children are adopted, and their adoption stories have been nothing close to boring.

When they adopted their first daughter, Zoe, they barely made it home from the hospital.

We could only get within about three or four hours of her.

We couldn't get right there overnight.

So we flew till late into the night, drove most of the night, and at 8 o'clock the next morning, we were in her hospital room. We were still in Las Vegas where she was born. And due to some paperwork snafus, we had to stay in Las Vegas for about 10 days. There we were hold up in a little extended stay

hotel and the social worker called me at the hotel. We don't have your fingerprints. And I said,

well, we filed the paperwork and she said, well, we don't have the fingerprints. Maybe you

should call the FBI. And so I literally, it was like 1,800 FBI. It was just a general phone

number and left a voicemail.

Oddly, they called me back. And they said, we don't seem to have it. I don't know that we've ever had it. I don't know what to tell you. I call my social worker back. I explain that the FBI doesn't know what we're talking about, which is never a good sign. and she suggested that maybe we should get an apartment because we may be there for a while.

I just went in. which is never a good sign. And she suggested that maybe we should get an apartment because we

may be there for a while. I just went into a panic. I'm like, I don't want an apartment in Las Vegas. I've got a home in Kansas City that I really like to go to. And she called us in about an hour and a half and said, you know what? We found them. We have your fingerprints. They're right here. you are free to go.

I hung up the phone

and I looked at my wife

and I said,

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