Girl with cleft lip adopts dog with same difference: ‘There’s just a bond’

By The Washington Post | Published Feb 8, 2025

At night before bed, Kynlee Rogers would often ask her mother: “Mom, why am I different?”Born with a bilateral cleft lip, Kynlee, 10, began noticing her facial differences around age 6. Other kids noticed, too. “They would make her feel different, and they would draw attention to her differences,” said her mother, Kimberly Rogers.