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Danny Stewart was rushing to meet his boyfriend for dinner when he ran past something lying on the floor of a New York subway station. Soon he would treasure it more than anything else in the world.
It was around eight o'clock on 28 August 2000, just past the frenzy of the New York rush hour when a subway train rattled down the track into 14th Street station, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. Danny Stewart, 34, was late for dinner with his partner, Pete Mercurio, 32.
The couple had met three years earlier through a friend in Pete's softball team. Later Danny had moved in with Pete and his flatmate, but on this summer evening he had been back to his sublet apartment in Harlem to pick up the post.
As Danny was hurrying out of the station something caught his eye.
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50 Shades Of Blue
(10,077 posts)CrispyQ
(36,545 posts)Love the family photos!
Demovictory9
(32,487 posts)dmr
(28,349 posts)It's like this family was meant to be. And they were!
Mickju
(1,807 posts)It's great to see what a fine young man he turned out to be.
bedazzled
(1,771 posts)thank you!
polmaven
(9,463 posts)on this Easter Sunday! Thank you so very much for posting it today!!
soldierant
(6,940 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Nittersing
(6,385 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)japple
(9,846 posts)Thanks for posting this.
titanicdave
(429 posts).....an abandoned baby......basically a "throw away" child.......unwanted and unloved was found by a gay man who, along with his husband, legally adopted the baby who is now a 20 year old college student studying mathematics & computer science.......obviously a very intelligent young man.....the bottom line is that all 3 people involved in this wonderful story have had their lives enriched and happy......may all 3 of them continue their amazing journey through this life filled with love and joy and peace......
Karadeniz
(22,599 posts)Of soul values and what it takes to develop the soul so it can return to its home. Jesus contradicted faith alone. These men, gays, have the soul values of generosity and care. Compared to a heterosexual who cares most about money, football and beer, and who goes to church every week, these men here are the ones with souls that are in better shape. Sexual preference has nothing to do with Christian, soul, values.
Karadeniz
(22,599 posts)Much less skin color. There are 2 people in my village who've used the N word in my presence. I haven't spoken to them since. To them, skin, not soul, has importance. You can't be that intolerant unless your soul is the size of a flea, and there's no point in my cultivating fleas.
The New Testament says God is light, so are we, and we must radiate goodness. That's really not that hard to understand!!!
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)ever, and ever, and ever.....
....I am happy that this turned out ............HAPPY!!!....
So happy that I could almost cry out of .....HAPPINESS
So, only once before, I felt like this ...close to crying out of ...HAPPINESS ....
That once was at the end of a movie, "It's A Wonderful Life"....when I realized that it all ended happy...
But that was a............movie................and this....is real...What a wonderful post...
THANK YOU FOR POSTING...K AND R
North Shore Chicago
(3,339 posts)These men gave this child the best chance to prosper in life!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)Thank you!!!
Rhiannon12866
(206,420 posts)I shared this with my friend who's a social worker who sometimes gets discouraged and she loved it, too. Thanks so much for posting.