3 Sets of Russian Twins United - Our Story

July 10, 2004

I've been holding back my news for quite sometime because there were so many risks involved with sharing information, but I now want to shout it from the rooftops!

We're now home with two sets of twins from Pskov, Russia to unite them with their full biological twin siblings whom we adopted from Pskov in 1999. You can see us all uniting at the airport here at CBS: [url]http://kyw.dayport.com/launcher/9874/[/url]

I will also try to include a picture if I can. Also if any of you

want to look (because you know I don't have the time anymore) the story should be on ABC and NBC local Philadelphia news that aired on June 30th. Also, Dateline NBC has been with our family since the beginning even traveling with us to Russia and of course, Pskov. The story will air sometime this fall and I will

be sure to let all of our families know.

We adopted our boy/girl twins in 1999 from Pechory, Russia when they were 11 months old. After the court hearing I asked about siblings and was told about the other sets of twins, but they lived with the birthfamily at that time. In November 2003, I began to search for the birthparents through a friend in Pskov (I would now be happy to share her name with anyone else searching for birthparents). She found them and we discovered that the other twins were also in orphanges. Twin girls in Nevel, and twin boys in Pavay. Last week, I was blessed to unite

all three sets of twins at the Philadelphia airport. I feel there is nothing better in life than knowing your purpose, and my children

are mine. How many people are lucky enough to find that. We're all so blessed to be parents of our beautiful children.

Here are some of the stories that ran before we left for Russia and I'll look for the others later:

[url]http://www.nbc10.com/news/2914101/detail.html[/url]

[url]http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/031004_nw_russianorphans.html[/url]

[url]http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-06022004-310068.html[/url]

Lisa Salem (Mom to 3 sets of twins)

[Edited To Remove the URL to a Retail website.]