Fu Yang's New Life in America

The Father's Day edition of the Dallas Morning News ran a great, great story on Fu Yang, a Chinese born orphan with some special needs, and his new parents, Louis and Dinah DeLuca, who live here in Dallas.

Fatherhood is a leap of faith. Every child starts out as a stranger; every father, no matter how many times he has been through it, starts out as a beginner.

Dallas Morning News photographer Louis DeLuca was expecting a routine shoot three years ago when a friend asked him to take some pictures of a Chinese orphan flown in by Grace Children's Foundation for surgery to correct a congenital facial deformity.

"It was October, the middle of the football season and I was busy," Mr. DeLuca recalls. He complained to his wife, Dinah.

"He's an orphan," she said. "You can take the time."

These photographs tell the rest of the story. From almost his first look at Fu Yang through the viewfinder of his camera, something happened, Mr. DeLuca says. "I looked at him, he looked at me, and we instantly bonded."

Be sure to read the rest of the piece and see the photos taken by proud dad, Louis DeLuca. What a heart warming Father's Day story!