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Baby left for dead is all grown up She'll graduate high school a few miles from site of her rescue
SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Tuesday, June 6, 2006
| Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writer
Posted on 06/06/2006 2:12:13 AM PDT by Simmy2.5
The temperature outside on the night of Dec. 30, 1987, was 45 and dropping. Cold for most anyone, but perilous for a newborn baby girl wrapped in a towel and stuffed in a brown paper bag like trash.
She probably wasn't meant to be found alive.
When Steve Gibbons, a California Highway Patrol officer, pulled off Interstate 280 to stop and stretch his legs, she was just hours old. Her temperature had plummeted to a dangerous 90 degrees. If she had been there much longer, she would have died near the intersection of Cañada and Edgewood roads in Redwood City.
But Gibbons heard the baby's cry.
Now the abandoned infant has grown up. Ashley Wyrick, 18, will graduate Friday from Sequoia High School, 4 miles from where she was left in the bag. She says she sometimes wonders why she was set by the side of the road and where her biological mother might be. But in her mind, it was fate.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: abandoned; baby; leftfordead; life; lifeaffirming
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To: Simmy2.5
Darn blurry monitor...
This is one special young lady.
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posted on
06/06/2006 7:33:07 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: Simmy2.5
Wow, what a story. I hope this young lady makes the most of her life--and that her biological mother has repented of her horribly wicked act.
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posted on
06/06/2006 7:36:43 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Ginty for US Senate -- NJ's primary day is June 6 -- www.gintyforsenate.org)
To: Simmy2.5
"It makes me feel like I'm here for a reason. I'm here to do something with my life,'' said Ashley, who will attend the University of Arizona in the fall on a scholarship. "I'm not here to sit around and cry and waste my time thinking about what happened to me.'' Wow ~The world's a better place with Ashley in it.
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posted on
06/06/2006 7:56:57 AM PDT
by
b9
("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: mtbopfuyn
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:15:05 AM PDT
by
Krodg
To: mtbopfuyn
Who put the Burr under your saddle this morning?
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:33:19 AM PDT
by
Texas Mom
(Two places you're always welcome - church and Grandma's house.)
To: Texas Mom
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:51:34 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: MosesKnows
sarcasm tag
This story is an example of people who were close to being aborted who grew up to be a wonderful person. Many on the left would have argued to have her killed in the womb.
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:57:38 AM PDT
by
varyouga
(I no longer fear death. I only fear the day when the DUmmies take over.)
To: Simmy2.5
You can see the hand of God in this story. What a blessed child.
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:57:58 AM PDT
by
Texas Mom
(Two places you're always welcome - church and Grandma's house.)
To: Simmy2.5
Thanks for posting the story, great start to my day!
One wonders if, late at night, this young lady can hear the whispering noise from the angel she surely has been watching over her.
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posted on
06/06/2006 10:16:20 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(Choose between the lesser of two evils and in the end, you still have, well, evil.)
To: Simmy2.5
Excellent story, and a happy one at that. However, it highlights what a pi$$-poor job the state of CA did in placing this child. The father seemed to really love her, but for the state to place this child into the described 'stormy relationship' was beyond the pale. There is no mention of the 'mother' whatsoever after the fathers death. Very strange.
To: Luke Skyfreeper
Bless you, Ashley, you're a bright and wonderful girl!
What a touching story!
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posted on
06/06/2006 10:51:13 AM PDT
by
derllak
To: Luke Skyfreeper
What a gorgeous young woman. Thank God for the patrolman who found her and saved her life!
To: Space Wrangler
Oops meant to actually make a post.
Well, even reputable adoptions agencies can place babies in bad marriges.
I have personal experiance with this. It's kinda personal, I'd kinda not like to give out a lot of details.
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posted on
06/06/2006 9:07:34 PM PDT
by
gracie1
(Visualize whirled peas!)
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