Tiffany Gillespie: Red Tape

Kleenex Dept: You d better have Kleenex for me. , according to The Star. Gillespie s daughter, her new child, would be home. The adoption process, a five-year emotional odyssey of hope and red tape that brought them from Ethiopia, would be over and the text to her partner came from the immigration line on the other side of sliding glass doors at Pearson airport s Terminal 1. Tiffany Gillespie was puddling up again. Inching closer and closer to one last border officer, the tears were flowing more frequently now. Soon, the 5-year-old at her side, the one with the trusting eyes, gap-toothed smile and colourful beads braided so perfectly into her hair, would officially be a landed immigrant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.