The Tender Notes Left With Orphaned Babies

by ParentCo. April 19, 2016

Have your tissues handy.

These notes (some of them now centuries old) found with babies orphaned at the NY Foundling Hospital offer a powerful and intimate glimpse into what has always been -- and will always be -- a complicated, courageous, and heartbreaking decision. Have something to add? Please let us know in the comments.
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