Danny Stewart and Pete Mercurio found baby Kevin in a Manhattan subway station 25 years ago. Now, their story is told in the animated short film "18 Months," capturing the love, hurdles and hope behind their family's beginning.
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by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 29, 2025 5:48 PM |
I love this story!!
Here's the 7 minute short film.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 28, 2025 4:30 PM |
I guess I'm a big baby.
That short film made me cry.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 28, 2025 4:37 PM |
Join the club, R2.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 28, 2025 4:38 PM |
Peter did it the old way, I watched. It was gross.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 28, 2025 4:46 PM |
Not CG, all miniature sets and figures. Beautiful story.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 28, 2025 4:50 PM |
[quote] Peter did it the old way, I watched. It was gross.
[quote] —Mrs. Buttigieg
Your twins were lucky, Chasten.
At least they got to suckle from your ample, milk filled breastesses.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 28, 2025 4:55 PM |
They should have just kept him and not reported that they found him. It would have been a lot easier to get him a fake birth certificate.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 28, 2025 4:58 PM |
I'm curious about the baby's ethnicity.
Since it's NYC, there's a high likelihood he could be Latin/Afro-Caribbean.
But to me, he actually looks Samoan, or similar.
Oh, and Kevin is very TALL!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 28, 2025 6:11 PM |
Danny Stewart's Instagram is absolutely lovely.
Lots of positivity, beer, and cows!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 28, 2025 6:14 PM |
[quote] They should have just kept him and not reported that they found him. It would have been a lot easier to get him a fake birth certificate.
You're joking, right?
They could have ended up in jail for doing something that stupid.
Danny and Pete did it the right way.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 29, 2025 2:53 AM |
I remember reading about them in the news at the time. and I love their book, Our Subway Baby. It has a great afterward with photos of them with their son and the story of his life through college. I used to read it to my students -they loved it.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 29, 2025 3:21 AM |
Thanks for sharing that, R11.
I just went to look it up.
It's such a cute book!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 29, 2025 3:28 AM |
Was the baby in a handbag?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 29, 2025 8:07 AM |
I suppose all this new publicity will be hard on Kevin. He's just a normal guy who happened to have some unusual circumstances surrounding his birth and adoption. He seems to be accomplished in his field, so I'm sure he'd much rather be known for that...
Now, Dataloungers, do we need a poll over which of his two dads is the sexier? I'm surprised we haven't gone there already!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 29, 2025 5:48 PM |