One stepdad received the best Christmas gift he could ask for this year: his stepdaughter asking him to adopt her.
Stephen Dabney of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, posted a video of him opening a gift from his 18-year-old stepdaughter Makayla on Christmas Eve. Dabney found box after box wrapped within each other until, at the end, he found an envelope.
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When he had the envelope in his hand, Makayla began a speech telling him that he had been her father for over 14 years, taking her in as his own.
"Obviously there's been rough patches," she said in the video. "But I love you more than anything, and now you can open that."
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"I was wondering if you would adopt me," she said as he opened the envelope.
Dabney was immediately brought to tears as he embraced his soon-to-be adopted daughter. He called the gift "the most amazing Christmas present a father could ask for."