Fate Makes a Family

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Annnnnd now I'm a blubbering mess.

Pick1 on February 28, 2013 at 11:37 AM

me too jesus.

jaansdornea on February 28, 2013 at 11:38 AM

AWWWWWWWWWW thank you Dan. :)

Action Kate on February 28, 2013 at 11:45 AM

omg. that was beautiful!

yelahneb on February 28, 2013 at 11:47 AM

I neglected to get a tissue and now I'm wiping my eyes on my shirt sleeve. What a great story. Thanks, Dan.

joematango on February 28, 2013 at 11:54 AM

WHERE DID ALL THIS DUST COME FROM?

MLM on February 28, 2013 at 11:55 AM

This Danny fellow ruined a perfectly good Libertarian experiment. Couldn't he tell that infant was on the verge of true self-sufficient Randian perfection? Stop codling these babies with "shelter", "food", and your weak willed Leftist love and eventually we will have a perfect society.

tkc on February 28, 2013 at 12:05 PM

Amazing.

emor on February 28, 2013 at 12:11 PM

My eyes started to burn when Kevin....just read the story.

Fnarf on February 28, 2013 at 12:15 PM

Damn allergies. (sniff) Thanks, Dan.

NotYourStrawMan on February 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM

You trying to restore my faith in humanity or somethin'?

Pope Peabrain on February 28, 2013 at 12:21 PM

Wow! It's like the start of a fairy tale. I hope this doesn't mean that a dragon will plague New York in sixteen years. And that this kid grows up safe and sound in a loving household. (Sorry, but Oscar Pistorius taught me to be skeptical of happy stories, darn murdering sonovah...)

DRF on February 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM

According to my personal experience, grab two tissues.

Squirly on February 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM

A whole box of tissues.

ddmama on February 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM

Awesome that the KID suggested using the same judge.

And can someone please remind me exactly how having two dads (or two moms) is supposed to be harmful for a child?

From the South (as in CA) on February 28, 2013 at 12:45 PM

Yayyyyy!

katrat on February 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM

Man, as if I didn't have enough things to watch out for, now every time I go into the subway I'm going to be worried about ending up with a kid.

Chase on February 28, 2013 at 12:49 PM

I only skimmed it, and I'm a little sniffly.

MacCrocodile on February 28, 2013 at 12:50 PM

Would be interesting to learn the name of the judge, who's as much a hero of the story as the parents (and Kevin). Talk about judicial activism !!

Cornichon on February 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM

That was beautiful. I'm on my lunch break and have to go back to teaching in 6 minutes. Hopefully they wont be able to tell I was crying. :-\

ScienceNerd on February 28, 2013 at 12:54 PM

*sniff*

JJinAus on February 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM

All right Dan. Tell us the truth. How many tissues did you go through? Good thing you warned me in advance. Thanks for sharing. That was a wonderful story.

SeattleKim on February 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM

Gaw. I teared up a lil' too. That judge seems like a real mensch (womensch?). I wish there were more judges out there willing to use their power to cut through red tape like that.

Lance Thrustwell on February 28, 2013 at 1:27 PM

Everyone in my office loved this. It's a good thing I had a spare box of tissue.

despicable me on February 28, 2013 at 1:30 PM

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.

JrzWrld on February 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM

fucking mascara.

Allyn on February 28, 2013 at 2:03 PM

What is this sudden ache in my chest.

Prettybetsy on February 28, 2013 at 2:08 PM

What is this salty discharge?

ohthetrees on February 28, 2013 at 2:09 PM

It's really hard to be sneaky reading the internet at work when I'm crying like a baby.

akrizman on February 28, 2013 at 2:12 PM

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.

kwodell on February 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM

Amazing story. Go humanity!

I'm supposed to meet friends in a few minutes and now I've got to pull myself togeher.

Eric from Boulder on February 28, 2013 at 2:52 PM

Bawww! That was beautiful. Congrats to the family and the judge.

emma's bee on February 28, 2013 at 3:08 PM

Sometimes people do the right thing, despite the odds against it. Thanks, Dan (and Joe Jervis).

OutInBumF on February 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM

Thank you for sharing this, Dan. It's beautiful.

monkeylover on February 28, 2013 at 4:27 PM

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.

vennominon on February 28, 2013 at 4:34 PM

You were right about the tissues: Awwwwwwwww.

judybrowni on February 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM

Finders Keepers, right?

Amirite?!

Too bad Danny couldn't have found a baby.

Would have saved him some major coin......

on February 28, 2013 at 6:02 PM

@37
Reading the story and comments wouldn't have been complete without seeing something from you. You're like my favorote cranky uncle. Hugs.

Clayton on February 28, 2013 at 6:06 PM

good f@cking god i know i'm a pretty sensitive guy but damn... tears through the whole thing.

ballard dude on March 1, 2013 at 1:23 AM

I was dry-eyed until "Can I give you a hug?" :'}

KCFrance on March 1, 2013 at 4:21 AM

Just as I suspected, this proves I have no feelings. An interesting story, but not an atom of humidity.

GasparFagel on March 1, 2013 at 5:36 AM

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....

In all seriousness, beautiful story.

singing cynic on March 1, 2013 at 5:53 AM

Everyone loves a happy ending.

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?"

The judge "on a hunch" (so far as we're told) handed a baby over to just some guy who found him in the subway. 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 Joel Steinberg for all she knew, or cared.

seeker6079 on March 1, 2013 at 6:53 AM

Link fixed:

Joel Steinberg

seeker6079 on March 1, 2013 at 6:55 AM

@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.

Friendstastegood on March 1, 2013 at 10:14 AM

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, "This is how families are made."

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."

Fortunately for Kevin and his dads, real life doesn't have to be pre-screened for excessive sentimentality.

Chelydra_serpentina on March 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM

@42 To lose one parent is unfortunate. To lose both looks like carelessness.

Clayton on March 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM

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