I was ashamed I thought this woman was going to confront me. Instead her words and the magnitude of her grace overwhelmed me. I think of that moment often.
Skyler James was abandoned when she was only hours old but thanks to this determined firefighter she was rescued and now 18 years later they finally meet.
"So why do you want a black baby?" she asked, with the heartbreaking earnestness that only a black woman in post-apartheid South Africa could pull off.
