By MONICA HAYNES
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
When Cheryl Carter-Shotts brought her adopted son home from Ethiopia, there were no paparazzi at the airport, no reporters staking out her home and definitely no appearance on Oprah.
The year was 1985, and his name was Mohammed.
She'd seen him for all of 18 seconds in an TV interview conducted by Diane Sawyer.
"I will never know why, I just absolutely fell in love," Carter-Shotts said.