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      <![CDATA[@42 To lose one parent is unfortunate.  To lose both looks like carelessness.
        
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      <![CDATA[No tears from me (does that mean I'm an unfeeling, empty soul?), but knowing what the outcome was probably going to be, I kept thinking, "<i>This</i> is how families are made."<br />
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And Dad wrote a screenplay about it? This is one of those stories that, if someone had pulled it out of his or her imagination, a studio's response would have been, "Oh, come on. That is just too damn perfect to be realistic. People will roll their eyes at the sentimentality."<br />
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Fortunately for Kevin and his dads, real life doesn't have to be pre-screened for excessive sentimentality.
        
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      <![CDATA[@43 I agree that the decision and process seem rushed, but from the text it seems that even though they were handed the child pretty much right away they were still under supervision for a long while before the actual adoption. If they had proved to be unfit parents the child would surely have been removed.
        
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      <![CDATA[Link fixed:<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Steinberg" rel="nofollow">Joel Steinberg</a><br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Everyone loves a happy ending.<br />
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But isn't this a case of "judge pulls a decision out of her ass without knowing a goddamned thing about the people she was handing a baby over to and, thank god, it worked out but it sure as hell was luck rather than good planning?"<br />
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The judge "on a hunch" (so far as we're told) <i>handed a baby over to just some guy who found him in the subway</i>.  That's it.  Next to zero checks into the prospective parent(s).  That it turned out well is a touching story.  That it happened that way is insane and an indictment of the judge.  The LW might have been another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Steinberg/" rel="nofollow">Joel Steinberg</a> for all she knew, or cared.
        
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      <![CDATA[I must be the only nerd who hears "baby found in subway station" and whose brain immediately goes to "The Importance of Being Earnest." Black sweatshirt/black handbag.... <br />
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In all seriousness, beautiful story.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just as I suspected, this proves I have no feelings. An interesting story, but not an atom of humidity.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was dry-eyed until "Can I give you a hug?" :'}
        
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      <![CDATA[good f@cking god i know i'm a pretty sensitive guy but damn...  tears through the whole thing.<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[@37<br />
Reading the story and comments wouldn't have been complete without seeing something from you.  You're like my favorote cranky uncle. Hugs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Finders Keepers, right?<br>
<br>
Amirite?!<br>
<br>
Too bad Danny couldn't have found a baby.<br>
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Would have saved him some major coin......
        
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      <![CDATA[You were right about the tissues: Awwwwwwwww.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[vennominon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What good fortune that this came up before one of the very few judges with good intuition and a benign character. And I'm glad that the boy seems to have turned out well.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you for sharing this, Dan.  It's beautiful.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sometimes people do the right thing, despite the odds against it.  Thanks, Dan (and Joe Jervis).
        
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      <![CDATA[Bawww! That was beautiful. Congrats to the family and the judge.
        
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=1505042">emma's bee</a>]]>
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      <![CDATA[Amazing story.   Go humanity! <br />
<br />
 I'm supposed to meet friends in a few minutes and now I've got to pull myself togeher.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm crying for all the baby ACEs who got stuck in crap foster homes or worse.  Same sex marriage will be the saving grace for tens of thousands of kids.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's really hard to be sneaky reading the internet at work when I'm crying like a baby.
        
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      <![CDATA[What is this salty discharge?
        
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      <![CDATA[What is this sudden ache in my chest.
        
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      <![CDATA[fucking mascara.<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh hell. The workman fixing my bathroom is going to get back from his lunch break in like 3 minutes, and I'm bawling like an idiot.
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Fate Makes a Family]]></title>

    
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      <![CDATA[Everyone in my office loved this. It's a good thing I had a spare box of tissue.
        
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=3555812">despicable me</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:30:06 -0800</pubDate>
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