Abandoned, rescued, and adopted by a British couple...
#1
Abandoned, rescued, and adopted by a British couple...
Just a totally random story for those who need a bit of a feel good:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121604383.html
Anyway, story goes on to mention they were adopted by a British expat couple living in Washington D.C. and that over the Christmas holiday they all met up for the first time since that random moment 20 years ago.
Just a little sappy story to help you through your Monday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121604383.html
Christopher Astle and Emily Yanich were teenage pals strolling back from a 7-Eleven that afternoon in late summer -- two ordinary kids on an ordinary Wednesday after school -- when they found the abandoned baby.
It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the newborn wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their Fairfax County complex and took the infant to Emily's, where her stepfather called police.
The whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, both 15, went on with their lives, although Emily often cried when she told people the story, and the two called each other every Sept. 6.
Twenty years passed.
Then, on Dec. 2, a college student named Mia Fleming sent them both a message via Facebook: Might they be the same Chris and Emily who had once found a baby left at a stranger's door?
If so, she just wanted to say thanks.
After all these years, the little girl they had found had found them.
It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the newborn wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their Fairfax County complex and took the infant to Emily's, where her stepfather called police.
The whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, both 15, went on with their lives, although Emily often cried when she told people the story, and the two called each other every Sept. 6.
Twenty years passed.
Then, on Dec. 2, a college student named Mia Fleming sent them both a message via Facebook: Might they be the same Chris and Emily who had once found a baby left at a stranger's door?
If so, she just wanted to say thanks.
After all these years, the little girl they had found had found them.
Anyway, story goes on to mention they were adopted by a British expat couple living in Washington D.C. and that over the Christmas holiday they all met up for the first time since that random moment 20 years ago.
Just a little sappy story to help you through your Monday.
#5
Re: Abandoned, rescued, and adopted by a British couple...
I sense screen play and big screen with such story.....
(although they already are making a Facebook movie.)
(although they already are making a Facebook movie.)
#8
Re: Abandoned, rescued, and adopted by a British couple...
Wow! They found her fewer than 5 miles from my family's house, just up Gallows Road near the Vienna DMV (which is where I'd gotten my first drivers license). I was 16 when this happened but have never heard this story until now. What a great, positive ending to a story that was so heartwarming to begin with.
~ Jenney
~ Jenney