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Welcoming a Son

Thursday March 22, 2007 06:00 AM EDT

Welcoming a Son| Angelina Jolie

Jolie and Pax

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Suddenly out of the orphanage, "the big issues will be intimacy and teaching Pax about family life," says Aronson, herself the mother of an 8-year-old son adopted from Vietnam. "He's in the mind-set of, 'I'm in the pack, and I can't always get what I want.' Now he'll learn that his wishes will be respected."

Contrary to some reports, Pax's adoption was not fast-tracked, nor did Jolie, who requested a healthy boy – many of the children at Tam Binh are HIV positive – donate money to the orphanage in order to curry favor. "Things just fell into place," says Heidi Gonzalez, the Vietnam adoption program coordinator for Adoptions from the Heart, the Pennsylvania-based agency that arranged Pax's placement. "Angelina contacted me [in late fall] as I was looking for a home for Pax."

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