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"Most people never ask. And that's what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. "
- Steve Jobs
More than two decades ago, police officer Gene Eyster got a call he'd never forget. It was December 22, 2000. A group of college kids had discovered an abandoned newborn in a cardboard box in the hallway of their apartment complex.
Twenty-four years later, Gene received another call...about the same baby, only now he's all grown up.
News article in the South Bend Tribune about newborn baby abandoned in hallway of apartment
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It's been more than twenty years but Gene remembers every detail about that night. The date, the time, the outside temperature, even the TV channel he was watching when he received the "unsettling call."
The baby, only known as "Baby Boy Doe" was found at 12:15 am, shivering in a box and swaddled in blankets and a flannel shirt.
"That was one of the strangest calls I think I've ever had: 'We have a found baby in a box,'" Gene, a 47-year veteran of the force, toldCBS News.
Responding officers transported the baby to the hospital and later he was handed over to Child Protective Services. But that wasn't the end for Gene. "Baby Boy Doe" (or rather "Baby Jesus" as Gene liked to call him) had left his mark. Gene even bought him a teddy bear so he would know that someone cared.
As a Sergeant in the Major Crimes Unit, Gene's job was to find the baby's parents. He succeeded. Within days, he identified the parents and pieced together the circumstances. But due to privacy laws, the fate of "Baby Jesus" was kept under wraps.
"You always wonder, what happened?"
Gene Eyster via CBS News
It was a mystery that would take two decades to solve. But finally, after 24 years, Gene found much-needed closure in an incredible full-circle moment.
It's been 5 years since Gene worked his last case but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his work. So, when an old friend and fellow officer from the police department called him out of the blue and asked him if he remembered the case of the baby in the box, Gene emphatically responded, "I remember it distinctly!"
"Well, you're not going to believe this," Officer Josh Morgan told Gene.
"He's sitting right next to me, Baby Jesus. He's sitting next to me, he's my rookie!"
Officer Josh Morgan
In an incredible twist of fate, Josh's rookie was Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, aka: the baby in the box. Gene said it was "surreal."
What's even crazier? Is that today, Matt serves the same police department, wears the same uniform AND patrols the same neighborhoods as Gene did for nearly five decades. How's that for serendipity?
According to Today, Josh and Matt put the puzzle together after responding to a domestic situation at the same apartment complex he was found in as a baby. Adopted shortly after he was found, Matt never knew the details of his origin story, other than that his birth mother, overwhelmed and unable to care for him, had left him in a box.
On March 22, Gene and Matt came face to face in an emotional reunion. They spent their time chatting and poring over the case documents, including a dozen photos of Matt, only two days old – photos he, nor his family, had ever seen before.
"It was a blessing," Matt said of meeting the man who helped rescue him. "I've wondered my whole life, who found me? What happened? And more or less it's a kind of closure for Gene, you know, like he said for twenty-something years he's wondered what happened to Baby Jesus. But here we are, we made it."
What made it even more poignant, is that the timing couldn't have been more perfect. Gene recently lost his only child, his 36-year-old son, Nicholas, unexpectedly in January.
"So the timing couldn't have been any better, it helped to fill a void that I've had to deal with," he shared.
Whether you believe in fate or divine intervention, or neither, it seems as though this meeting was truly meant to be.
It's another afternoon in the outback for Australian native Katherine. She's at the Queensland Kmart department store shopping for candles.
That's when her 12-year-old daughter shows her something she's found on one of the shelves. Well, two things, one of which that sends this story on a wild ride.
After composing herself, Katherine takes to Facebook to share her daughter's discovery. It's not long before it catches fire, getting over 5,000 likes and hundreds of comments.
"What a beautiful thing to do! I'd be so overwhelmed if this happened to me," writes one.
"The domino effect of it is truly so amazing and humbling," adds another.
Here is that first 'domino' that Katherine's daughter found that day: Along with a $20 on the shelf is a note that reads:
If you found this, it’s yours. Please keep it as a reminder of your abundance! Money is energy & there’s an infinite supply available.
That's when Katherine posts the sweet note on Facebook, saying that it inspired her daughter.
"'My daughter is 12 years old and keeping the money and we will be adding more to it each week and hoping by December we saved enough to do the same as pay it forward," she writes.
She ends her post with, "Whomever you are who shared your wealth to people, may God bless you and your family. Sharing is caring."
As it turns out, the author -- and their story -- proves to be a smashing sequel.
grayscale photo of woman doing silent hand sign Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash
After a little sleuthing, the internet discovers the mystery writer to be Love Island Australia reality star Isabelle Green. She posts to her Instagram, where she posts herself writing and leaving notes in several Kmart Stores (four in all).
She explains to 7News.com.au that she credits a random act of kindness she'd received years ago as the motivation behind her sweet scribbles.
“Many, many years ago I found a little card that said ‘Expect a miracle,'" she says. "And it’s actually a business, it’s a company. And he leaves these little cards everywhere and it kind of got me inspired to start doing little things for people where they can expect a miracle."
Despite the fanfare her gesture generated, Green says that she only cares about one person and that's her daughter, Dakota.
"Even though she can’t really understand right now, even her coming along with me she would still be picking up the vibrations of those acts of kindness, the energy of it."
a sign that says be kind on it Photo by Adam Nemeroff on Unsplash
"That's a lovely gesture. Hope you found your abundance, I feel it doesn't have to always be money," another commenter added.
Among the quotes on kindness, one by Claire Strandberg reads, "Teaching kids good manners is teaching them about kindness, consideration, and respect."
It's funny because while they might not share the same social status, Katherine and Green are both rich. Each with a lovely daughter, they each have the kind of abundance a mansion of money can't buy. And now because of one kind gesture, those two girls will inherit it as well.
Now that's generational wealth.
*Featured image contains photo by Gustavo Fring and Yan Krukau