Box Baby Reunited
Abandoned in a cardboard box 40 years ago, James Face was recently reunited with the family that found him via a posting on CL:
Face never knew that Gallegos felt like she lost one of her children. He never knew Tom Jr. would grow up wondering what happened to the baby he found. He never knew Tom Gallegos Sr. went to police, hoping to adopt the abandoned baby, only to be turned away.”Yes, I was serious,” said Tom Sr., 71. “They told me I already had too many kids. I told them I had five children. I told them that was OK, it would be like throwing one more potato into the pot.”
September 16th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Fascinating.
Touching.
Kevin McGrinder
September 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
What a beautiful story! It makes me thank God every day for my kids!
September 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
beautiful story….
October 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I remember hearing stories about people like you who would have loved and cared for the baby as if he, or she were your own biological child. I am sure there has not been a day that goes by that you do not think about what if? I am a little younger than you but lost twins due to a miscarriage and think of them everyday. I am lucky to have the two boys I do have 24 and 14. When the 24 year old was a baby I was a single parent and went to Nursing school to provide for him. When I was 33 I got married and we had a baby 18 months later. With the baby I stayed home and money was very very tight but I would not trade the memories of having him, now I am back at University going for my Master’s degree, just by going to school and applying for every loan and grant out there has made our life’s better and I still home school the 24 year old however, next year he will go to private school. He was always jealous of what his brother had done and what he had had materialistic wise while the 24 year old was jealous because he did not have me all day everyday. So the moral here is you can never win when it comes to kids you can only love them.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 am
So touching.At a young age I relinquished the rights to a daughter, through the courts. Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Wondered about her for over 20 years.I knew when she was of legal age, I would look for her.Through Gods grace I did find her. In reading “baby in a box”, I can only imagine everyone rejoicing at the end of this story.Beautiful………..
October 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I am so moved by this story. May these 3 famiies be showered with blessings.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Wow, I love the way God works. I love this true, loving story of humanity. It gives me chills to think how long it took for all of you to rejoin eachother.
Blessings to all
October 25th, 2008 at 8:59 am
This is a great and touching story. My wife and i recently had a bomb dropped on us, when her father was visiting from Cali. “You have a 1/2 sister he told my wife”…BOOM….She / we were stunned. He explained that he promised that he would not tell anyone, until a certain time, which was on his last recent visit. Mom apparently met someone back in 1959 or 1960 not exactly sure, when they were spit up. Mom ended up pregnant, she then had a fallingout with the other person and dad took her back, pregnant. The baby was a girl born in either 1960 or 61, we are not sure on the year, and the baby was given up for adoption. The baby was born at Kaiser Walnut Creek, CA. Mom and Dad divorced he lives in CA, mom lives in the Pacific Northwest. We are looking for the adopted sibbling, we know that she had contact with mom years back, and we dont think it went well! She’s ill and can’t tell us much in here condition. We want so badly to find her. We posted on CL hopping for the needle in the hay stack! Your story gives us hope that there is a chance of reuniting. If you know anyone with an adoption story close to this, email us!
October 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I over looked a contact for my comment / adoption story, we have placed an add on CL Bayare SEARCHING FOR ADOPTED SIBBLING 1960 1961, please respond via that add if you or someone you know could be the person we are searching for, you have details that would identify you
November 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
In S.C.,USA. 2 babys per wk, each and every wk are abandon.
am not sure which is the most crewl - abortion as a means of birth control are abanding new borns to state system. Job sercurity: physco doctors and theripist. Are parents liveing off state benifits thur means of thier children who they space 3 to 5 yrs apart to stay living on the system.
And foster providers who goal is to make thier loan pymts and consumer providers who use the state system for cookie crumbs that might cover thier cell phone contracts.
Job security: Prison system.
We now have what 52 birth control options.
Yrs ago Sisters would take in children of family members and raise the children as thier own - so Aunt B just might be your Mother and in known communitys, that makes a new meaning to kissing cousins.
Surely woman can go to college, support thier communitys etc… to occup thier time instead of being a baby manufactory but being that men and woman are no longer marrying each other - will slap a rainbow sticker on forhead of adoptable children for those who are marrying.
Uncertain why woman are pleased and view a baby as being healthy based upon number of fingers and toes since some defects dont show until child is in thier early 20tys and 30tys and by 40ty they have physco disorder and by - will- 60ty demention is possibility.
Am sorry I dont have 45 yrs to devote as being a parent that steps in thur out child life time, when needed.
God bless those who clean up other people intentional mess’s and work to pay for public assistance and public school tax’s.
I raised 2 step sons as a single parent and put them thur private schooling while paying taxs for those who claim that there is a thing that is called accident and accidental children. I like to see that on Riplys believe it or not ,a man that has trained his private to unzip & rezip his pants w/o his knowlege,and a girl 10 are older that clueless and was sound asleep sitting on park bench when her body shed her undies as liken to snake shedding its skin & her honey sat next to her,lol.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
What an awesome story, miracles happen everyday.. we just need to take the time to open our eyes and see how truly blessed everyone of us is… God bless each and everyone and have an awesome new year..
January 11th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
As an adopted child I say congrats to you for your warm hearted soul!
January 12th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I was left in a cardboard box at about four to six weeks old on the Salvation Army doorsteps in L.A. 67 years ago. Wish I could find brothers or sisters or any relatives. I was in the newspapers known as Baby Joan Doe as a note pinned to me said my name was Joan and my parents had split up and couldn’t take care of me so a man left me there after calling.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
My comment is simply this. I was forced to give my daughter up for adoption at birth (underage) I was reunited with her a few yrs ago and it has been like my right arm has been re attached. God help those who are still searching