“88-Year-Old Man Who Adopted 9 Baby Girls in 1979 Receives the Ultimate Gift From Them 46 Years Later” went mega-viral across every platform. Millions viewed. Comments poured in: “That man’s love changed nine lives 
”, “The daughters giving him the orphanage back — I’m sobbing 
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Richard lived to see Anne’s House welcome its first children — four sisters who would never be separated.
He passed peacefully two years later, surrounded by all nine daughters, their families, and the love he had built from nothing.
