A late-night phone call, a frantic flight and a baby in need of a mum

Adding to the chaos, when Mrs Young tried to book her return flight to South Australia, she was told it would be near impossible on Christmas Eve, with all the flights to Adelaide fully booked. "There were these two lovely-looking ladies sitting in the row waiting to board the plane … I plucked up the courage and said to them, 'Please, would you take these two babies to Adelaide? The Youngs were one of many Australian families who adopted children from Vietnam during the war, which came to a brutal end in 1975 when North Vietnam captured Saigon in the south, following the withdrawal of the US and allied military forces.

Author: Shannon Pearce, Elyse Armanini, and Julie Kimberley

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