A woman finally met her long-lost dad, a man who didn’t even know she existed—thanks to an amateur sleuth she met on Facebook.
Adrieanna Tyler thought she knew her father until the age of 13, when she overheard him referring to her as his stepdaughter.
Since then, she wanted to know who her biological father was—but never could find out anything about him.
Now a 33-year-old mom married to a truck driver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she recalled, “I was desperate to find my real dad; it always mattered to me”.
She began the search again this year by ordering a DNA test kit and asked for assistance from strangers running a Facebook group where people help strangers unite with long lost relatives.
“This wonderful lady called Suzanne on the group helped me build my family tree and after doing another DNA test we found my aunt.”
They tracked down her 47-year-old aunt, Kathie Johnson, and from there, found her biological dad—a police officer who lived 1,000 miles away in Florida.
“She said she’d put me in touch with my dad and I was so nervous! How do you just call someone and ask ‘are you my dad?’”
Adrieanna told SWNS news service that Joseph Frank ‘had no idea she had ever been born’ and was thrilled to learn he not only had another daughter, but two young grandchildren.
“When he found out about me, he was so excited, and it was such a relief. I felt so vulnerable before, in case he wanted nothing to do with me.”
“We spent some time getting to know each other before finally meeting and it was just perfect. It felt like a dream.”
They met last week at a local festival near her home, and now they’re already planning a family holiday.
During the emotional meeting, they enjoyed pizza and she also discovered she has two half-sisters who are around her age.
Courtesy goodnews movement
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