you know, I saw that same show last night, and I didn't really *connect* to the kid as a kid either, not til the guy they described as his benefactor came to visit him in the hospital after his second or third surgery. and watching *his* reaction, and how he was so sincere and happy, telling Novemthree (I think that was his name?) how handsome he was -- then I kind of got it -- that he really was a real little boy in there. And I cried when he got his eyesight back in his right eye, after the operation. And when they showed his mom -- how hard it must have been for her, not to go with her little boy to this. But man--I don't know why I even turned the channel to the show, either.