"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
At just 3 pounds, the baby who is now named Samuel Tyler was so small he fit in a shoebox. And that's the where his birth mother put him as a makeshift cradle when she left him at a local firehouse with a note explaining she couldn't care for him.
