A nine-year-old US boy has raised thousands of dollars selling lemonade to help pay for his own formal adoption.
Tristan Jacobsen set up his stand outside his kinship guardians' home at the weekend in Springfield, Missouri, serving up drinks for $1.
Donnie and Jimmy Davis told the Springfield News-Leader the third-grader's stall raised $7,100, together with a yard sale, towards the adoption legal fees.
A further $10,000 has been donated to the adoption fund on YouCaring.com.
Ms Davis said Tristan's biological parents were her ex-husband and a 15-year-old girl.
The Davises took Tristan into their home after his birth mother - whose life spiralled into drug addiction and prostitution - abandoned him at a shelter in January 2012.
She says the boy was initially placed in a class for students with behavioural problems and was prescribed anti-depressants, but his well-being has since hugely improved.
Ms Davis says she and her husband already consider Tristan their son, but want to make it official.
The family only needed $5,000 for the legal and adoption fees, and say the extra will go towards Tristan's education.
"There's not enough words to say 'thank you' to everyone who has shown support or given us donations," Ms Davis told the News-Leader.
"Everyone has made this possible. We will make sure this child will forever be ours."
Tristan wants to change his name to Quill Tristan Davis.
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