Pete Mercurio was walking out the door to meet his then-partner (now husband) Danny Stewart for dinner in August 2000 when his phone rang. He'd found an abandoned baby in the subway and had called 911 from a payphone. Danny, Kevin and Pete in 2018. "We talked about how our family became a family openly in front of him. Last year, that very personal story was published with the title "Our Subway Baby," which Mercurio calls a "love letter to our son."

Source: CNN December 12, 2021 01:56 UTC