Boy Born Abroad Prematurely Finally Home In Minnesota 3 Months Later: "We're Here. We Did It."

By Adam Duxter, CBS Minnesota

June 26, 2024

ST. PAUL, Minn. — It was an embrace more than three months in the making. At 93 years old, Bill Halverson was finally holding the youngest member of his family.

"How do I put that into words? It's just an incredibly wonderful moment," Halverson said Tuesday.

In Halverson's arms is a baby whose birth caught his parents entirely off guard, and whose life has transcended bureaucratic systems in multiple nations. Simply put, Greyson Phillips had arrived long before he made it home to Minnesota.

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