They've got love enough to spare Russian girl, St. Charles family forge bond despite distance, age.(Neighbor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December, 2002

Byline: Rachel Baruch Yackley Think of adoption, and a pink- or blue-clad infant comes to mind. But not for the Mogilinski family of St. Charles. When they opened their hearts, they deliberately chose to give love and hope to an older child. Shannon and Michael Mogilinski, who have a 4-year-old son, Calvin, made a decision to add to their family, and at the same time, to help a child.

Although Calvin is the Mogilinskis' biological child, and they are able to have more children, they decided to adopt their next child. And so 7-year-old Nadia began a new life in a different ...