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It's Friday on public radio, so this is a test of your tear duct system again.

Start with this photograph provided by Bill Jones, 

Every father has got a picture like this, from a time when dreams were big.

Aaron, the boy above, was turned down by five families before Jones agreed to adopt him. But first he decided not to.

"You know, children know when they've been rejected. So, I found myself down at FAO Schwarz. I had bought a teddy bear. I went back to the adoption agency and I said, 'I want to give a present to that kid.' Aaron heard my voice and came running across the room and threw his arms around my legs. And I just cried."

"Every day was a struggle with him," Jones tells StoryCorps. "Except that he was a loving, sweet person."

It's the story of the collision between the dreams we have and the reality we have to accept.

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It's Friday on public radio, so this is a test of your tear duct system again. Here's a story of the collision between the dreams we have and the reality we have to accept.

When parental dreams meet reality

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