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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sara Wallis

'Blue-eyed' baby boy abandoned in box on Christmas Day finds family after 62 years

Staring down at the plain, grey doorstep, Harvey Shackell was filled with disbelief, but also a sense of wonder.

More than 60 years earlier it was on this very same slab of concrete, on a freezing cold Christmas Day, that Harvey had been abandoned in a cardboard box as a newborn baby.

“I can’t believe this is where I was left,” he says. “If I hadn’t been taken in, I would have frozen to death.”

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