Story about a child that touched my heart.

I must say that a story about a child that has touched my life is the story of how I got my baby brother. Let me first say that my mother has four biological children of her own. The fact that the love for children runs in my family led to her becoming the mother of five. When my biological youngest brother's best friend lost his mother, he had no other family to turn to. This child had been sleeping behind some apartments in the neighborhood at night and still managing to go to school every day. We had no idea that he had nowhere to live until my brother brought him home with him one day. We all had dinner as usual and as it was geting late, we noticed that the little boy was not trying to go home, he had plans on staying the night. My mom was like "baby it is a school night, you can stay over this weekend", he just sat there looking. Finally, my brother decided to share with her that this child had no where to go and was homeless. We could not believe that such a young child had no where to go. We looked for family only to find one of his older sister's that said he could not come to her house. My mother refused to let him go into state care so she went to juvenile court and explained to them what was going on. They walked her through the proper procedures and she was able to legally adapt him. He is now 19 years old and is and always has beeen to most grateful, respectable young I've known. Im glad we were able to help him....