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One is for Jackson, the couple's 4-year-old adopted son. The other two are waiting for boys the Langs hope to bring back to Beverly from Russia later this spring.

"He can't wait to be a big brother," Kim said of Jackson.

On Thursday, however, the life-changing moment was put in jeopardy when the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia had frozen all adoptions to the United States. Russia is still outraged by the actions of a Tennessee woman who earlier this month sent a 7-year-old Russian orphan back to Moscow on a plane by himself. Just six months after adopting the boy, 33-year-old nurse Torry Hansen wrote that he was violent, unstable and "psychopathic," and that she had been misled by the Russian orphanage workers who vouched for his mental health.

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