An Orphan No More: The True Story of a Boy - chapter one celebrates the concept that love is love. Rodney has long dreamed of being a parent. Although he is told that he cannot be a parent alone, fate has much more in store. Rodney discovers that a selfless act of protection actually becomes his first step toward fatherhood.

I was born in a small village in the province of Prey Veng, Cambodia.  My birth parents died when I was a baby.  I was placed in an orphanage in Phnom Penh, the Capital of Cambodia, when I was just a year old. I lived in the orphanage until I was two; that is when my dad adopted me.