Gandhinagar( Kottayam): Fate and fortune intertwined to bind the couple Thomas and Neena with four little girl children. In 2019, Puthuppally natives P A Thomas and Neena planned for a Mumbai trip. But they could not get train tickets. Hence they booked tickets to Pune station and decided to board a train to Mumbai from there. At the station, their eyes focussed on four little sisters sitting in a corner of the station. Thomas went near them and tried to talk with them and identified that their parents had abandoned them in the station four days ago. Within a short while, the couple could feel a very warm affection for the little girls. 

The children now live with Thomas and Neena as the four daughters of the kind couple. For the couple, this onam is special with their daughters, Eyra Elsa Thomas (9), twins Andrea Rose Thomas, Eylen Sara Thomas (8) and Alexandria Sara Thomas (6), because he had completed all the procedures of adoption. 

The moment Thomas saw the children, he desired to bring them into their lives. Wife Neena too agreed. Then both of them cancelled their Mumbai trip and went to a police station with a friend in Pune. By completing the legal proceedings, they took temporary custody of the children for a month. When they returned home, the relatives did not receive them well and this made Thomas and family shift to a rented house. The preliminary procedures of adoption were completed in 2019 and he received recognition from the Ministry of Women and Child Development last July. 

Meanwhile, Thomas got a PRO job under the Govt Medical College Development Committee of Kottayam and he could build a home of his own. 

Though the elder daughter Eyra knows a little Hindi, the girls are now absolutely Malayalis. After Thomas adopted the children, the couple had given birth to a child. But due to heart-related issues the child passed away and then the only relief for them was their four little kids.