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How much can a life change in only five years? For Emily Christensen, that course started out with her conversion to the Cathedral of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and concluded with the adoption of six children with special needs. But the highs and lows between those two things are almost too much to believe: enduring cochlear implant surgeries, appointment and marrying the person of her dreams, grieving the loss of life of both of her parents, learning to be a chaplain, and fostering more than 70 children. At the main of the story is an bill of her ongoing initiatives to save the life span of her youngest daughter, Kyrie (pronounced keer-ree-ay). Blessed with captivating sight and a full head of frizzy hair, Kyrie also arrived to the earth with Pierre Robin Sequence, a disorder where her lower face and airway were not properly made. First as a foster mother and then as an adoptive mother, Christensen has fought her way merely to help her daughter breathe.