On a late-summer afternoon in September 2017, a Signal Mountain couple, Charlie and Brittany Dolan, were given just two hours to make a life-changing decision.
It came down to this: Did the Dolans want one newborn baby in their lives, or two?
At the time, Brittany, a graphic artist, was seven months pregnant with the couple’s first child, a boy. She and her husband were living with her parents on Signal Mountain while they built a house nearby.
Out of the blue, the opportunity arose for Brittany and Charlie, a TVA worker, to perhaps parent a newborn girl who had just been put up for emergency adoption at Erlanger hospital.
Brittany, now 27, said the improbable, but ultimately wonderful, day was put in motion when she got a phone call from her husband.