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My brother found a newborn on his doorstep Saturday morning at 3 AM. He's a dad of 3 and a lawyer who helps anybody who walks through his doors. He was working late, and found the child on the steps outside (55 degrees) wrapped in a blanket, with a hat and footies, as he came home and was turning off the lights.

Can you imagine? Either leaving a baby, or finding one like that? He and his wife called the authorities, of course, and the little girl was a little chilled and a little blue, but otherwise all right. She was 4 pounds 9 ounces. The police have looked for 2 days for the mom, but they think the kid was born in a car between midnight and 3 AM Saturday AM, and that's all they know.

My brother is grateful, scared, confused, angry, and all the other emotions one can only imagine. He and his wife would love to raise the child, but that is unlikely the way this state handles cases like this. he and his wife believe (as I do) that the mother intended Andy and Erica to raise the baby.

I keep thinking of the first day or two of the lives of both of my sons. I really do shake, thinking of either of them being left somewhere like that.

(Next day)

Now I call his office, and the secretaries tell me that Inside Edition and the like have been calling for two days to get him on TV. All kinds of people stop at his office to talk about it, and he's worried that someone might show up at his house as well

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