Where did you find me?
Star-crossed lovers with a happy ending.
And here’s another great story of lost and then found.
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
Star-crossed lovers with a happy ending.
And here’s another great story of lost and then found.
A wonderful story, Neo; very heart-warming. Thanks for sharing. :>))
Great stories. That 2nd one…wow!
My wife and I were married in 1979. In 1987 we divorced. She remarried several years later and I actually operated on her husband. He developed Alzheimers and two years ago, we got married again. Thirty years later. We have a daughter who is coming to visit tonight. She will be 38 the end of October.
Finding you’ve known your true father all your life – and he’s been like a father to you that whole time — well, no scriptwriter would even try to pitch that story, because no one would believe it.
Time to make the movie!
Mike K:
That’s quite a story, too. Best of luck to your and your family.
That story about the football players is astonishing. I have tears in my eyes reading it. My daughter and I sent samples to 23&me. She got a call a year or two ago from a guy who had been also searching for his birth mother. He was a successful guy, a TV producer and had gotten a 50% match with my daughter on 23&me. It turns out that my wife’s sister had given up a baby for adoption 50 years ago.
They communicated and met about a year ago. The timing was good as his mother was getting dementia. Nobody knew.
There are going to be more stories like that, if not as dramatic, as DNA becomes more popular. I learned a family secret some years ago that a cousin had also given up a baby for adoption. She has since died and the child would now be 78.
So there are fifty years, mostly married to other people with….what might be a ghost hovering not entirely in the background.
Complicated.
That is a fantastic story about the coach being a mentor unknowing to his son, brought some tears to my old eyes.
My daughter gave me a DNA test thingy on Ancestry for Christmas, I was born and adopted at the end of WWII. This spring I got a real close match and long story short surprised four half siblings by being their unknown older half brother. My birth mom was a wonderful woman who passed away a few years ago in her 90’s and it was great to find out her story, good stuff all the way around. Birth mom raised a good family and we are friends now.
OldTexan:
That’s a wonderful story, too.
I have friends who were high-school sweethearts, went separate ways & raised families, were both widowed, and got back together in their 80s via a HS reunion. Sweet, sweet, sweet.