Homeless Man Finds Abandoned Newborn Baby on Deserted Alley, Years Later They Meet Again ​– Story of the Day

A man finds an abandoned baby in the dark alley he lives in and saves her life, and many years later his kindness is rewarded.

Some children are born into a cradle of gold, cherished, loved, and wanted. Others are not so fortunate. One late fall afternoon, Jeffrey Miller, 37 and self-confessed drunk, found one of the unfortunate ones.

He was walking into the alley where he usually slept away his afternoons when he heard a strange sound. At first, he thought it was a cat, but as he drew closer, he realized it was a baby crying! There was a baby lying next to the dumpster on a pile of dead leaves.

Jeffrey was stunned. A baby? Here? Who’d leave a baby next to a dumpster in an alley where rats could get at it? Quickly he picked up the child and saw that it was very young, maybe just days old.

“Oh,” cried Jeffrey rocking the whimpering child. “Oh, we are in trouble…” He didn’t know what to do. Jeffrey had been raised in foster care after his parents died, and he had been very unlucky.

For Jeffrey, handing the baby to Child Services would be like sending it to certain torture. “What can I do?” he asked the baby, who just yawned at him. So he went to a shelter he knew and spoke to the nun who ran it.

He told her the baby was his, that he’d had a relationship with a homeless woman who had now abandoned the child, and he asked her for help, for formula and diapers. For the first few months, Jeffrey managed to keep the baby clean and fed, but then winter arrived.

How could he keep such a small baby in the streets in winter? Then he had an idea. Every day, he panhandled outside a big Wall Street firm, and there was a tall thin woman who always gave him money and said a few kind words.

Jeffery decided that she would be the perfect mother for his baby. He walked up to her. “Hello,” he said. “Would you take my baby, please? It’s getting so cold, I’m afraid she’ll die.”

The woman he had chosen was...