Orphan meets new mom and makes everyone cry

It was an emotional scene as dozens of special needs children from China arrived to meet their foster families in Texas, especially six-year-old Lucy.

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Grace White, KHOU - HOUSTON - It was an emotional scene at Houston's Bush Airport, as dozens of special needs children from China arrived to meet their foster families, and hope for a permanent home.

Like every mom would, Audrey Shook spotted Lucy, 6, right away and from the moment they first met, there was an instant connection.

"Hi! Hi! I'm momma," said Shook, as Lucy appeared to repeat the word "momma" back to her.

It's an end to a journey that started long ago for the Texas couple.

"We started dating in high school and I knew back then I wanted to adopt from China," said Shook.

However, when the couple got pregnant, they put the idea on hold. Nine years later, came a video of Lucy. They fell in love with the little girl, who was in an orphanage a world away.

"I've always loved kids with special needs, especially kids with down syndrome," said Shook.

"These are the kids that are unwanted, they are the kids nobody else wants, they've been sitting on lists for their entire life or sitting in an orphanage," said Shannon Phillips, with Great Wall China Adoptions.

The agency asks families to host special needs orphans for four weeks, but the Shooks already made up their minds.

"She's beautiful and sweet and we just can't wait for her to be ours," said Shook. They couple has already started the process to adopt Lucy.

"We don't see it as we are going to help her, we see it as she's going to help us with our lives," said Brent Shook, Lucy's soon-to-be father.

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