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 WATCH: Anderson Cooper Talks to Gay Dads Who Found Their Baby on the Subway
  The gay New York couple who rescued and are raising the abandoned baby they found appeared on Anderson to share their incredible story. 
   
 Jase Peeples 
          
          Mar 11, 2013
          
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Screenwriter Peter Mercurio and his husband, Danny, warmed hearts everywhere when their story went viral earlier this month. The couple found an abandoned baby in a New York subway station, took him home, and ended up adopting the boy.
After hearing the incredible way the family came together, Anderson Cooper invited the couple to appear on his daytime talk show.
 
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WATCH: Anderson Cooper Talks to Gay Dads Who Found Their Baby on the Subway

The gay New York couple who rescued and are raising the abandoned baby they found appeared on Anderson to share their incredible story.

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