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Welcoming a Son

By Michelle Tauber and Mary Green

Thursday March 22, 2007 06:00 AM EDT

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New Orleans, Feb. 23: "If you're going to adopt an orphan . . . adopt from a country you love," Jolie (with Shiloh, Pitt and Zahara) told PEOPLE in '03.

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After being given information about the boy, Jolie followed up with a November trip to Vietnam, a country, along with all of Southeast Asia, where Jolie has said she feels "at home." Pitt and Jolie visited the Tam Binh orphanage, "but she didn't meet with [Pax] individually," says Gonzalez. "She didn't want to single him out. So instead she met with all of the toddlers and brought them gifts." But even from a distance, Jolie clearly clicked with the "friendly and very shy" little boy, says Gonzalez: "It was like it was meant to be."

Clearly his new family agrees. While Pax adapts to life in the Jolie-Pitt household, the group will likely forge new ways to understand each other. "It's eye contact, it's touch, it's looking, it's being attentive," says Aronson. "The advantage is that Angie has a son who will be the big brother and will be there to help Pax not be afraid. Maddox will be the great teacher here. He'll be the great love object for Pax." No doubt there will be plenty of love to go around. Pax's new parents, adds Aronson, "are both bright people who love children and want to do the best by their kids . . . It's just a fantastic win-win situation."

• With Kay Johnson and Do Minh Thuy in Ho Chi Minh City