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This year (at the Thanksgiving feast) it was Royanne’s mother, sisters and brother, as well as the families of four of the Avegnos’ five surviving children — all but one delivered into the hands of a couple who, in the course of a 40-year marriage,
adopted seven children.
Of the adopted seven, young Ashton, or “Benjy” to the family, was their single traditional adoption. He came into the family after Royanne gave birth to a stillborn second child, Laurie, and learned that Jennifer, their first-born, would be their only biological child.
Greg, malnourished and psychologically scarred by privation, came from Korea. Meg and Jeremy, mixed-race children who were both hard to place, came when the Avegnos said yes to adoption agencies’ pleas.
They were in court completing Jeremy’s adoption when, out of the blue, a Jefferson Parish judge asked whether they would consider taking Matthew, a profoundly brain-damaged newborn. The Avegnos discussed it over lunch, and they said yes a few hours later. ...
Royanne and Bubby Avegno, bottom left, and top back right, feed family and friends on Thanksgiving at their home in River Ridge.
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