I don't really tell many people about this story, you know?

I mean, for a long time I didn't talk about it.

Mohammed Bazique, a 62-old retired engineer, will always remember how the story started,

when he met a boy with long lashes.

He has long lashes, dark lashes, and even the nurses envy him.

The boy with long lashes couldn't hear, he couldn't see, he couldn't move his body or

regulate his temperature.

The baby boy was born with birth defects and a skull full of fluid, and, as far as

Mohammed knows, was left by his mother when she crossed the border back to Mexico.

Mohammed met the foster boy while he was still in the hospital.

With a minute I saw him, I fell in love with this kid.

Unbelievable.

I mean, it's like I know him for a long time.

As he done with so many other children,

Mohammed took the boy, whom we can't name because he was in foster care,

home with him.

He's the only person in Los Angeles County who exclusively

takes in children with terminal illnesses. Before he was a foster dad, Muhammad

lived in Libya and he came to the US to study engineering. He met his wife here and they quickly

learned of the dire need for people to take in children who are dying. Kids whose parents

just can't handle it. Somehow Muhammad handles it again and again. Caring for children

with complex medical needs is hard, but losing them is harder.

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