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<\/p>\nIn 2010, Sandra Bullock received a phone call that changed her life forever. \u201cYour placement is here,\u201d said the voice on the other end.<\/p>\n
A few weeks later, she was on a stage, accepting her first Oscar for her appearance in The Blind Side, but she didn\u2019t care she was there.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAll I wanted was to go was just go home and feed Lou\u201d she said of her newborn, whom she had been waiting for years to arrive.<\/p>\n
Keep reading to learn more about this incredible actor and what inspired her to adopt two children!<\/p>\n
In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana by flooding its grounds, Sandra Bullock had a feeling that inspired her decision to adopt a child.<\/p>\n
\u201cKatrina happened in New Orleans, and something told me, \u2018My child is there.\u2019 It was weird,\u201d Bullock said in an interview with Today\u2019s Hoda Kotb.<\/p>\n
Years later, in January 2010, Bullock received the call she had been waiting years to receive.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe was unexpected, he was not planned. I got a call one day, \u2018Your placement is here,\u2019 and that\u2019s after years after having filed it, years,\u201d the 59-year-old star of Speed tells CBS News.<\/p>\n
Gushing over Louis Bardo Bullock, the three-month-old boy from New Orleans she secretly adopted in 2010, Bullock said, \u201cI looked at him like, \u2018Oh, there you are.\u2019 It was like he had always been there,\u201d she recalled. \u201cHe fit in the crook of my arm. He looked me in the eyes. He was wise. My child was wise.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Miss Congeniality star adds, \u201cThe beautiful thing that I was constantly told was, \u2018The perfect child will find you. You will find your child.\u2019 But you don\u2019t believe that when it\u2019s not happening. When you\u2019re going, \u2018Where is my family?\u2019 When it does happen, you know exactly what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weeks after Lou arrived, Bullock was on stage at the Kodiak Theatre, accepting her first Oscar for her starring role in the film, The Blind Side.<\/p>\n
But Lou owned her center stage and she wanted to be at home, with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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