Article Source: The Denver Post

Lily Nie is the ultimate tiger mother, matriarch of 9,350 children whose adoptions were facilitated by Chinese Children Adoption International, the Centennial organization she established in 1992.

Instead of seeking the limelight, she prefers to slip to the side. Her office door is papered with a giant handwritten tribute, one of many outsized Mother's Day gifts, including bouquets of paper flowers made from thank- you notes, that Nie has received over the past 18 years.

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