Article: Four autistic children, their utterly devoted adoptive parents and a truly inspiring story of love and sacrifice.

Byline: HELEN WEATHERS

THE faces of hundreds of children stared back at Sandy and Robin Row from the photographs contained in the inch-thick adoption agency book.

Page after page of them, all with faces scrubbed and hair neatly brushed, trying to look their best in the hope of being chosen.

But the picture the Rows kept returning to, the one that touched them most, was of four siblings sitting next to each other on a sofa: six-year-old Alice; Alex, five; Richard, three; and two-year-old Jack.

'They were all lined up with their little legs hanging over the edge of the cushions,' remembers Sandy, 52. 'The photograph had been taken at an angle, which made their ...

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