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Amaryllis

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Thu May 4, 2017, 07:27 PM May 2017

Girl, 12, Brings Down the House With Adoption Proposal Song to Stepdad During Talent Show

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For the past 10 years, Hailey Quinones has felt in her heart that Juan Gamez was her rightful father. But now she wants to make it official.

Twelve-year-old Hailey stood before some 150 people at her school’s talent show and sang a song she wrote just for Gamez.

"I would be so pleased if you would adopt me," she crooned while fighting back tears.

Gamez was left stunned, covering his mouth with his hand.

And his answer was most definitely yes.

“He was in shock,” Alishea Conroy said of her husband. “He’d have never thought that she would do that.”

Her daughter, Conroy said, is very shy and very reluctant to show any emotion when it comes to feeling sad or sentimental.

But in this important case, she was able to muster the bravery to bare her heart.

“I love you Juany and there’s no more I can say, I smile every time I see your face,” she sang to her stepfather.

She had to stop and restart several times because she was crying.

"She didn’t know if she was going to be able to get it out,” her mother said.

But she did just fine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/girl-12-brings-down-the-house-with-adoption-proposal-song-to-stepdad-during-talent-show/ar-BBAs2aP

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