Kate Kline, 54, never was one of those people who dreamed of becoming a parent. She never discounted the possibility either. But she couldn't have predicted decades ago that she would become a mother at 52, nor that her "children" would come in the packages they came in: Leah, 13, became her legal daughter a little more than a year ago; She's in the process of adopting son, Deagan, 17.

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