Retired Surrogate Court Judge Joseph Mattina oversaw about 10,000 adoptions in his decades on the bench.
He receives cards every Christmas from adoptive parents; and when he goes out in public, someone inevitably pulls up a child’s photo on their phones or from their wallets.
But a few weeks ago, he opened a four-page letter, written in cursive.
The letter was from Lynette Grandits, a (Franciscan Associate and) a single mother of two, both adopted from India. She wrote Mattina to thank him for saving the adoption of her second daughter, Rachel.
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