“Garbage man saves blind baby left in dumpster 23 years later. Boy does something shocking. A trash man, struggling to raise his twin daughters alone, adopts an abandoned blind baby he finds near a dumpster. Just as Bob thanked Destiny for giving him such a wonderful life and two adorable kids, fate struck him a painful blow. The 41-year-old had been married to his wife, Sarah, for nine years and ended up raising their twin daughters, Karen and Christie, alone.
Sarah came clean about her longtime affair with another man and left Bob to care for them on his own, but that wasn’t all. Karen and Christie weren’t Bob’s biological children. How could you do this to me, Sarah? Tell me the truth,” Bob had argued, and Sarah’s reply shattered him. She admitted Karen and Christie were not his biological children.
They were born to another man with whom she had an affair. Two years after marrying Bob, he asked her why she cheated on him. She said, “Because you scavenge dumpsters for a living, and I’m ashamed to say you’re my husband. I want a rich life. You can’t afford it.
Bob was shattered. He thought he’d been living a perfect life with Sarah, but it took him nine long years to realize his wife, whom he worshiped in love, was not pleased with him. Bob couldn’t see his daughters the same way again, but at the same time, he knew he couldn’t live without them. “Are you taking the children with you?” he asked Sarah the day they divorced.
“Why would I take the kids with me when I’m gonna marry someone else? You can raise them if you want because their biological dad died years ago,” she said without hesitation. Then she left, and Bob never saw her again. Bob couldn’t come to terms with the truth that his wife was gone, but he pulled himself together to raise his daughters. He felt this was what fate wanted him to do.
He battled against all odds to make his daughters happy. He believed that they were his world.” Knowing little that there was going to be a new addition soon, one day Bob found an abandoned baby boy crying near one of the dumpsters. He picked up the garbage from the baby, exclaiming, and approached the little one. He looked around and saw that nobody was there.
He leaned in and checked the baby’s carrier and found a note that read, “To whomever finds this blind baby. Please take care of him.” Babu was startled. How could someone do this to an infant? He picked the baby up and cradled him.
The baby kept crying and wriggled his tender hands to feel the person holding him. He kicked and screamed, but Bob calmed the child down and took him home to feed him some warm milk before calling Child Services. “I found him by the dumpster,” he told the authorities later. The baby boy was taken to the hospital, and his blindness was confirmed. Bob’s heart went out to the helpless little child and decided to adopt him.
“If I can raise two daughters by myself, I can certainly raise him too,” he thought. Six months later, Bob legally adopted the baby and took him home. “Here’s your new baby brother, Sam. What do you think?” he introduced the baby to his daughters.
Bob was initially skeptical about the challenges he’d have to face. He knew Sam would need special care and attention due to his blindness, so he did his best to help Sam feel loved. Seven years had passed when Bob discovered the boy had a special interest. “And then the princess escaped from the tower,” Bob would read bedtime stories to a giggling Sam, who would use his imagination to picture the beautiful princess trapped in a huge tower and a handsome prince secretly meeting her every night. Sam loved listening to such bedtime stories and never slept without one.
On his seventh birthday, Bob gifted Sam a book. “What is this, Daddy?” Sam asked. “It’s a braille book. You must feel the raised dots and slowly follow them with your fingers. It might feel strange to the touch,” Bob explained. “They’ll help you read and learn,” replied Bob, who patiently trained Sam to use the book. In the following weeks, every two months, Bob bought a new Braille book for Sam. They were expensive, so Bob had to cut down on several expenses to afford them. After 20 years, Sam could read and write fluently with the help of these books.
He decided to help blind people and started a small publishing house. Baum helped him with the essential equipment needed to get things started using the money. He would stay for his daughter’s wedding. With time, Sam’s business started to pick up, and his newfound success meant he could change his family’s living conditions and still serve society. After three years, Sam was the owner of a huge publishing house that specifically helped blind people to read and write.
His business had a vegetable turnover of millions, and he bought a huge mansion with his first million and moved in with his adoptive dad and sisters. Despite not being Bob’s biological son, Sam made him very proud in every way possible. He knew he was adopted and often said during interviews, “Parents are not those who give birth to us, but those who raise us. My own parents didn’t want me. They saw me as a burden.
I thank destiny for helping me find a loving father who helped me see the world through his eyes. Bob is my father and will always be. I’m proud to be his son.
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