A priceless moment was captured on video when a 2-year-old girl experienced the world — and her mother — for the very first time. Born with severe visual and hearing impairments, the little girl had never been able to fully see or hear the people who loved her most. But after undergoing a complex eye surgery and receiving hearing aids, her world suddenly opened up. In the heart-melting footage, she blinks in confusion as her vision clears, then focuses on her mother’s face — truly seeing her for

They Left My 8-Year-Old Son on the Side of the Road. Two Hours Later, Their Perfect Lives Began to Fall Apart. My parents had always believed they were untouchable. My father, Thomas Caldwell, was a well-known contractor in our quiet Ohio town — the kind of man people trusted with handshakes and Sunday smiles. He was a Rotary Club board member, the one who sponsored the high school football team every year and paid for the town’s Christmas lights. My mother, Margaret, ran the community garden an