CONTE FEATURING ADOPTIONS

February

Like a child taking that first tentative step, who is there to hold the hands of prospective parents as they begin the long journey down the sometimes arduous road to adoption? Who is there to reach out to the young woman who finds herself pregnant and alone? All over the world there are children who need the love, guidance, and protection of caring parents. All over the world there are parents longing to find children with whom to share their love. Adoption and adoption agencies provide the thread that can bind these two together to form the fabric of family.

WRITER: JIM GIBSON

Mary Greene of Leesburg seemed to be in a hopeless situation. While she suffered from severe aortic stenosis, her age prevented her from receiving life-saving, open-heart surgery. But thanks to a revolutionary new heart procedure offered by local cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists, Mary’s heart disease was successfully treated. No longer at death’s door, she is living life to the fullest.

WRITER: JAMES COMBS

Through

Healthy Living Chief Photographer, Fred Lopez, spent a good deal of his youth living just minutes away from Newtown, Connecticut and Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of one of the most heart-wrenching mass shootings in American history. Fred provides an insightful look at Sandy Hook through his eyes… the lens of his camera.

WRITER: FRED LOPEZ

JAMIE MARK

PHOTOSHOP: JOSH CLARK

MODEL: MIA AND SABRINA CICERI