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Foreign-Born, Adopted and Seeking Redemption on Team U.S.A.

GLENVILLE, N.Y. — Seven years ago, Nick Delpopolo took a family trip back to Montenegro, the country where he was born. He met a young man who had lived with him at an orphanage — and still lived there.

The boys were not yet 2 years old in August 1990 when nurses at the orphanage in the town of Bijela took one of them out of their shared room — the towheaded one named Petar Perovic — and presented him to Dominic and Joyce Delpopolo. The couple, from Westfield, N.J., had come to adopt a baby.