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#TSRPositiveImages: A Photo Of An Alabama Man Holding A Stranger’s Sleeping Baby Has Gone Viral

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In a week filled with stories about violence and divisiveness&comma; lies a sweet picture captured by a woman who saw a moment of humanity and needed to share&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the picture&comma; which was captured at a doctor’s office in Alabama&comma; a white man is seen holding a black woman’s baby so that she could fill out paperwork&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The man went over there and rocked and loved on that baby like it was his&comma;” wrote Natasha Wilson under her now viral &num;Facebook post&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">According to her post&comma; the woman walked in the waiting room of the doctor’s office with her sleeping baby and when they handed her paperwork to do&comma; she sat there trying to figure out how to hold her baby while filling out the paperwork&period; Then the man pictured&comma; from across the room&comma; asked the woman if she would like for him to hold her baby while she did her paperwork&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">According to Wilson&comma; the woman received his offer for help warmly&period; She smiled at him and told him that would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;wonderful&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My heart melted&excl;&excl;&excl; Racism is still VERY real in our society today BUT THIS MAN GAVE ME HOPE &amp&semi; a sweet memory I&&num;8217&semi;ll never forget&excl;&excl;&comma;” Natasha said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If you know this man tell him what an amazing person he is&excl;&excl;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The photo has united more than 1 million people now and has been shared more than 420&comma;000 times as well as received nearly 100&comma;000 comments from people all over the world&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">One Facebook user said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We still have wonderful&comma; compassionate people in this world&period; This just put a smile on my face&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It’s not often a kind gesture gets candidly captured but were thankful this woman snapped a pic and reminded us that people do make the world go round&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">TSR STAFF&colon; Christina C&excl; &commat;cdelafresh<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"45115" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tsrpositiveimages-a-photo-of-an-alabama-man-holding-a-strangers-sleeping-baby-has-gone-viral&sol;" data-secure&equals;"73f3d8639b"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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