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When Danny Stewart was leaving the subway station, he spotted something strange on the ground – and that moment changed his life.
(BBC, approx 13 mins reading time)
He was puzzled – why would a child leave a doll on the ground? – but he continued up the stairs to the exit. “I glanced back one more time, and that’s when I noticed his legs moved.” He ran back down the stairs and realised that the doll was in fact a baby boy, wrapped in a dark sweatshirt, with his tiny legs sticking out. “He didn’t have any clothes on, he was just wrapped up in this sweatshirt. His umbilical cord was still partially intact, so I could tell he was a newborn. I was thinking maybe a day or so old,” he says.
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