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This is the mission we were born to be on. We had no idea how much communitydriven this would become and how wonderful this place would be. All those people starting with our daughters who come through this door who have either been adopted or part of the foster care system have signed a heart and put it up on our wall. >> Hi, my name is Terry Crossen. This is my beautiful sister Kristen Mancini and we are the co-owners of Heart and Sold, a nonprofit thrift store in Swathmore, PA that benefits foster and adoptive services in Delaware County. Everything you see here has been generously donated, which is why we can keep our prices low. And in the process, we've been able to donate in our first year of operation $16,100 to our four different charities in Delaware County. This is Kristen's daughter, Nina, and this is my daughter, Cat. Terry adopted her daughter, Cat, close to 21 years ago. We adopted our daughter, Nenah, about 7 years ago from the same organization. It was such a unique way to complete our families. And it was such a perfect way to complete our families that we wanted to help other people do that. And there wasn't enough awareness about the cost and just the amount of kids in foster care, the amount of kids that need adoption, the amount of families that need support in those areas. >> You know, there's something for everybody. I am so humbled by just the generosity of people. We're growing in leaps and bounds and the more people that come and help us and the more people that just stop in to say hi, the more people we hug, it just keeps building a larger and larger community. And thanks for supporting Heart and Sold.