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Actress Emma Thompson with her husband Greg Wise, mother and fellow actress Phyllida Law, daughter Gaia, and son Tindyebwa Agaba, whom Thompson and Wise adopted six years ago and who has just graduated from Exeter University with a degree in politics. [Trigger warning.] Tindy came to Britain as a refugee after losing his father to AIDS, being forced to serve as a child soldier, and losing his mother and sister during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, after they were likely abducted, raped, and possibly killed by soldiers.

[The] charity Care International eventually helped him flee to Britain, where he met his adoptive parents…at a Refugee Council party in 2003, when he was 16 years old.

…"He didn't have much English, but we just got talking," Miss Thompson has previously said. …"He's such a lovely, enchanting boy, so I said, 'Come and spend Christmas with us.' And he came for half the day. Slowly he became a permanent fixture, went on holidays with us and became part of the family."

Adopting Tindy also helped the actress, who had tried and failed to have more children after undergoing IVF to conceive daughter Gaia, now eight years old.

…After learning to speak English, Tindy studied GCSEs and A-levels before winning a place at Exeter University.

He said he chose Exeter because his surrogate family had told him of the "stunning beauty there, where they shot Sense And Sensibility" - the 1995 film on which Miss Thompson met her 43-year-old husband.

From September, Tindy plans to attend London's School of Oriental and African Studies, where he will study for a Masters Degree in Human Rights Law.

Blub.

[H/T to Shaker tessrae, who recalled my abiding Emmalove.]