It took more than two years, a bureaucracy battle and international flights, but a little boy named Daniel JoJo finally made it to his new home country.
The 2-year-old boy, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the adoptive son of Roger and Julie Johnson of Franklin. After much work and prayer, the couple touched down Friday evening at Nashville International Airport with Daniel, uniting their entire family for the first time.
“This is a really neat time because when you go through an adoption you struggle for years to get through all the process. It’s painful. It’s hard. It’s not predictable,” Roger Johnson said. “This period right here that we celebrate kind of marks the beginning of the rest of the story, which is really a story about what life is going to become for him and for us as a family.”
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