When I Found You

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Over the years, Nathan McCann had drifted into a steady but monotonous rhythm with his life and marriage.  The only thing he had left that he really looked forward too were his early morning duck hunts with his faithful hunting dog, Sadie.

On a chilly Fall morning as he and Sadie set out to hunt, Sadie, who was a well trained and obedient hunting dog, went off on her own and would not listen when he called her. As Nathan went to figure out what had Sadie so riled, he found an abandoned baby boy that could not be more than a few hours old.

Nathan, who had never had children of his own, felt an inexplicable bond with this little baby boy and immediately began to plan a future where he would raise him as his own. When the boy's grandma came forward to claim the infant, Nathan was unaccountably disappointed and against his normal passive personality, insisted that the grandma one day bring the boy to meet him.

As a teenager, the boy becomes to much for the grandma to handle and when she has no where else to turn, she remembers her promise to Nathan and takes the boy to meet his rescuer.

This is a touching story of a man's conviction to helping a young boy, who is angry and lost and needs an unconditional love and support that is otherwise so hard to find.