(¾) “We were extremely lucky. We completed the entire...

(¾)  “We were extremely lucky.  We completed the entire process in fourteen months and travelled to Taiwan on January 21st of 2017.  The next morning we went straight to the orphanage.  We sat in a waiting room on the ground floor, and after ten minutes they brought Miles around the corner.  My wife dropped to her knees and hugged him like she’d never let him go.  And of course that broke me down.  I’m thinking ‘Oh my God, this is my boy.’  But when I went to pick him up, he started crying.  I’m telling him: ‘No, no, no!  I’m Baba, I’m Baba.’  But he didn’t want me touching him.  I went from the top of the world to the darkest valley.  I tried playing with him.  I tried getting him a Happy Meal.  But he didn’t want any of it.  Nothing was going right.  I felt so rejected.  This went on for two days.  Then on the third day we were sitting in our hotel room, and my wife left us alone while she took a shower.  And all of the sudden this little boy started looking at me.  And he had the biggest smile on his face.”
(Special Olympics World Games, Abu Dhabi,