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Smith, mom to share heartwarming moment of triumph

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, December 7, 2006

The little boy clutched the present for his mom on a snowy Christmas Eve. Around the Cleveland neighborhood they looked for her, the 9-year-old and the man who had given the boy a home. They walked though the snow and knocked on doors, asking where she could be. House after house, door after door. Nobody knew. The boy never found his mother on that Dickensian Christmas Eve more than a decade ago. Never got a chance to give her the watch he'd bought from the mall with his foster father's mo ...

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