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(From top left, clockwise) Families of Deepak Gurnani, Caleb Tan and Alvin Chia.

PHOTOS: COURTESY OF KARAN GURNANI, CALEB TAN AND ALVIN CHIA

Lee Siew Hua , Lee Siew Hua

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SINGAPORE - Fathers are champions and this is vividly seen in the stories of dads who bring up kids in special circumstances.
Civil servant Alvin Chia and his wife crossed ethnic boundaries to adopt a child from an unwed Indian undergraduate, nine years after the birth of their only daughter.
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