Madonna last week finally won the right to adopt 3-year-old Mercy from Malawi after the country’s highest court overturned an April ruling that Madonna had not spent enough time in Malawi to qualify as an adoptive mother. The judge found that Madonna was “intelligent, compassionate, articulate, and determined,” and that “her latest income tax return shows that she is financially stable.”
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