A teacher adopts a student with Down syndrome after his mom dies from cancer

Here's one of the most memorable stories of 2019. Four yours ago, Jean Manning, a single Massachusetts mom with breast cancer who had a son with Down syndrome, had a conversation with a special education teacher that would change everyone's lives. The woman, Kerry Bremer, offer to be Jake's guardian in case Jean needed a backup plan. In the following years, Jake got to know her family.

Last week, Jean passed away—and that same day Jake, 14, moved in with the Bremers.

Here. Watch. NSFW because you will cry.