Stranded with a Newborn: A Widowed Father’s Journey, and the Stranger Who Changed His Life
Bob was running late when the call came. A Florida hospital told him a baby girl had just been born—and he was listed as the father.
He would’ve thought it a mistake, if not for one truth: his wife, Mary, was in Florida. Bob had sent her there on a short vacation while he stayed behind in Texas to renovate their home. It was meant to be a surprise. After all, they were finally expecting their first biological child together.
Bob, now 40, had two children from a previous marriage and three adopted kids with Mary. Adoption was close to his heart—he’d grown up in foster care himself—and he had long dreamed of giving children the love he never had. But Mary getting pregnant had been a miracle, a blessing they didn’t expect.
So he expanded the house. A nursery. An extra room. A new beginning.
But life had other plans.
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