The woman held the boy tightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never stopped looking for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The boy’s voice trembled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re… really my mom?\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded through her tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked between them, smiling softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo… he’s my brother?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her mother laughed through her tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n
The boy wiped his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought nobody wanted me.\u201d<\/p>\n
His mother gently held his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted you every moment we were apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie slipped her hand into his.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re coming home with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled for the first time in years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’d like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the three of them walked out of the quiet New York alley\u2014<\/p>\n
the hamburger meant for one hungry child…<\/p>\n
became the gift that brought an entire family back together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The woman held the boy tightly. \u201cI never stopped looking for you.\u201d The boy’s voice trembled. \u201cYou’re… really my mom?\u201d She nodded through her tears. \u201cEvery single day.\u201d Sophie looked between them, smiling softly. \u201cSo… he’s my brother?\u201d Her mother laughed through her tears. \u201cYes, sweetheart.\u201d The boy wiped his eyes. \u201cI thought nobody wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}