A Parent’s Determination and an Unbreakable Bond

From the New York Times

Edwin Muñoz was never fond of body art. His skin was already home to a few scars, souvenirs from past confrontations: a shattered jaw, a knife wound in his back and a bullet hole in his leg. But that aversion changed when he sought custody of his son, Malachi.

Now, Mr. Muñoz’s right shoulder bears a more meaningful branding: “Malachi.”

“I have nothing in the world that I can call my own but him,” Mr. Muñoz, 27, said of his son, who is 4. “And there’s nothing short of death that’s going to keep him away from me.”

His son’s birth was a joyous occasion for Mr. Muñoz, but Malachi was born with a daunting list of problems, including a horseshoe kidney, a cleft palate, a chromosomal abnormality, asthma, a sickle-cell trait and global developmental delays.

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