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A couple who found an abandoned baby on a New York City subway station twenty years ago have revealed how they raised the boy as their own in a heartwarming story.
Danny Stewart told the BBC how he found an abandoned baby on 14th Street station, in Manhattan on 28 August 2000, when he was 34, while on the way to dinner with his partner Pete Mercurio, then 32.
"I noticed on the floor tucked up against the wall, what I thought was a baby doll," Mr Stewart told the broadcaster. "I glanced back one more time, and that’s when I noticed his legs moved."
He explained how he realised the bundle was a newborn baby boy, wrapped up in a sweatshirt with his umbilical cord still partially intact, prompting him to attempt to alert those around him to what was happening.
Mr Stewart, who at the time lived with Mr Mercurio and his flatmate, said he couldn’t get the attention...