Couple Reunites After 53 Years, Finds Daughter Given Up For Adoption

A Minnesota couple's story proves time and distance are no match for true love, reports John Lauritsen (3:38).
WCCO 4 News At 10 - February 11, 2021

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  • @angelashafer9100
    @angelashafer9100 Жыл бұрын

    I am a jeweler and you would be surprised how many people are finding their 1st loves because of social media. I've had almost a dozen couples with similar stories. Absolutely beautiful

  • @samanthab1923

    @samanthab1923

    3 ай бұрын

    I love that ❤

  • @pablotown77

    @pablotown77

    3 ай бұрын

    Very sweet, I am happy for them! I never had a first love, first crush only.

  • @Lunafalls

    @Lunafalls

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow!

  • @c.erine78
    @c.erine783 жыл бұрын

    This story is so heartwarming. Their daughter looks like both of them together!! I am glad they found each other and their daughter.

  • @yvonnepagan9912
    @yvonnepagan99124 ай бұрын

    I love stories like this. That could have been me and my husband. We went to school all our lives together. When he was in year twelve and I was in year ten, we started going steady. We were together for 33 months when we found out I was pregnant. I was two months short of 18 and he was a little over 20. We got married, had our beautiful daughter, struggled for a few years, then bought a our first home then had two more kids. We will celebrate our 53rd anniversary in May! And thank God for our beautiful mistake…she is the nicest person in the world and the other two are as well. Thanks to our parents for their confidence in us and their ongoing help.

  • @Trund27

    @Trund27

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your beautiful love story. I am so glad you got to be with the love(s) of your life

  • @anoodono1841

    @anoodono1841

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@Trund27amen

  • @linwoodouellette413

    @linwoodouellette413

    2 ай бұрын

    People where Cold back in those days all they cared about what would the people in the Town say about us me I don't care what people say about it. Talk is cheep she had a butyfull baby u can still be a good Mom and Dad without being married it's time for The UK to get there Head out of there you know what and drop this stopped Low They have May be it's time for The US 🇺🇸 government to step up and s change their ways before other Good people gets scood over by there government. I ♥️🇺🇸 WE ARE NOT BABY THESE 😅♥️🤍💙🍼

  • @Orpilorp
    @Orpilorp4 ай бұрын

    I dont understand why her parents thought a career would be more wonderful to their daughter than the love of a husband and a baby girl. I'm glad they got back together.

  • @michelleficinski9813

    @michelleficinski9813

    4 ай бұрын

    They were teens when her daughter was born.

  • @WoodlandDance

    @WoodlandDance

    4 ай бұрын

    @@michelleficinski9813True - but after he returned from the service, he proposed. Her parents said no, as they wanted their daughter to go to college.

  • @sharondoan1447

    @sharondoan1447

    4 ай бұрын

    Perhaps they had deep resentment towards Danny. In those days the girl was expected go away to a home for unwed mothers, in shame and humiliation. It was understood that the baby was automatically forfeit. Today girls are pressured into having an unwanted abortion by their parents or boyfriend. Today’s daughters are told the human growing in their uterus has no value, is a burden they don’t have to carry. Both ways lead to heartbreak.

  • @irenemak1302

    @irenemak1302

    4 ай бұрын

    I dont understand parents why her parents thought she couldn't have both. What is it with people who think that women can't be mothers and handle a career outside? It does not make her a bad person or a bad mother. It probably made her whole. Just very lovely that she has now.

  • @sharondoan1447

    @sharondoan1447

    4 ай бұрын

    @@irenemak1302 Each day has only 24 hours. Mothers who are only present for their children 2-3 hours out of those 24, cannot deliver the same focus on mothering that they are delivering to their career. It cannot be done. A trip to Disney World , the latest in gaming computers, hurried shopping sprees for the current trends and fads do not substitute for playtime at home. Moms who are physically present after work, but are consumed with tasks undone during their career days are not meeting their children’s need to be seen and heard. Sit on the floor and build Legos. Read books to your children while you snuggle under a warm blanket. And so much more. There is a difference between having a career and having a job. Ask some adults who were sidelined by their parents.

  • @sallygard63
    @sallygard634 ай бұрын

    My brother-in-law’s mum was 15 when she got pregnant. Her father took her away to have the baby, a little girl, and then arranged for its adoption. He also managed to send the boyfriend away by paying the boy’s parents. Years later that baby, now a grown woman, managed to track down not only her mother, but also her father! They all met up. The love between the mother and father rekindled and finally after all those years got married! My brother-in-law now has a sister he never knew of ! ❤

  • @janinein2yourself809

    @janinein2yourself809

    2 ай бұрын

    Bless them and you for sharing this lovely story ❤️🙏🏽

  • @sallygard63

    @sallygard63

    2 ай бұрын

    @@janinein2yourself809 thank you 🙏

  • @ItsMeHello555
    @ItsMeHello5554 ай бұрын

    She’s the spitting image of her dad! I’m so thankful everyone was still alive to see this to fruition. Beautiful. 🌿❤🌿

  • @carolg6598
    @carolg65982 жыл бұрын

    This isn’t fair to force people to give up their love child and force them apart.

  • @rebeccadieter6131

    @rebeccadieter6131

    4 ай бұрын

    My parents did

  • @peachygal4153

    @peachygal4153

    3 ай бұрын

    it depends. it also is not fair for grandparents to be expected to support the child either because the parents are still kids. I had a couple of friends whose parents eventually adopted their babies because the romance died with the baby and when they later married the new husband did not want the responsibility of another man's child. However, in their case, he was older, a senior and went into the army shortly after graduation. She could have followed him with their baby and gotten her GED wherever he was stationed. If her parents wanted her to go to college, they could have encouraged her to enroll in night classes and eventually get her degree.

  • @pablotown77

    @pablotown77

    3 ай бұрын

    @@peachygal4153I guess her parents didn’t like that Danny boy at all.

  • @EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm

    @EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm

    3 ай бұрын

    Well, they were responsible for their decisions. It is not fair to the people who raised her and acted like real parents.

  • @34goofylucy
    @34goofylucy2 жыл бұрын

    She really really looks like her dad. I pray they get to live a long life together

  • @madaketmom
    @madaketmom3 ай бұрын

    As an adoptee who found her biological families, this story warms my heart ❤️

  • @will_9342
    @will_93423 жыл бұрын

    Time can't defeat love. This story just goes to prove it. So happy for them but more so for the daughter.

  • @whifflydilly
    @whifflydilly7 ай бұрын

    Fabulous story with a wonderful ending. Bless you all, and peace be with you.

  • @annamarielewis7078
    @annamarielewis70783 жыл бұрын

    What a lovely couple. So glad they are all together now.💜

  • @lesliebrickey8357
    @lesliebrickey835710 ай бұрын

    It's criminal what happened to those kids. I can't imagine the pain of having to give up my baby and my true love. I'm so glad they are together now and I wish them many years of happiness.

  • @Lunafalls

    @Lunafalls

    3 ай бұрын

    Please, only judge people by the times in which they lived. Society and social norms were very, very different 60 years ago. And, I can guarantee you that 60 years from now, the people of the future will be horrified by some of the things we consider "normal and right" here in 2024.

  • @louDAY831

    @louDAY831

    3 ай бұрын

    Where did it say the young couple objected to putting the baby up for adoption?

  • @ez2u1

    @ez2u1

    2 ай бұрын

    @@louDAY831 in those days they were told to do so and did what they were told to do. . it was shameful to have sex outside of marriage and worst to get pregnant. Your reputation was ruin.

  • @harmlessgrey
    @harmlessgrey3 ай бұрын

    It is so sweet that they got married 36 hours after they reconnected. That brought tears to my eyes.

  • @peachygal4153

    @peachygal4153

    2 ай бұрын

    You mean seeing each other in person again. they had been communicating online for a while before he flew out to see her.

  • @MegaVictorygirl
    @MegaVictorygirl2 жыл бұрын

    A beautiful life began late. That gives me joy and hope. Thanks to Karen, Dennis and their reunited daughter, Jean. You’re blessed!

  • @jun6017
    @jun60172 жыл бұрын

    I hope this story inspires us that 50 years is a really long time apart. Imagine the life they could have created together instead of apart. They missed so much to be together. If there is someone you can’t imagine losing so much time and the life you could build together, don’t let go of this person. Take a chance.

  • @mamapeppa3326
    @mamapeppa33262 жыл бұрын

    I hope that they live together in health, wealth and happiness til they are at least a hundred years. I wish tremendous joy and endless happiness for this couple, their daughter,and her wider family.

  • @KA-eu9sy
    @KA-eu9sy3 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful family. Finally reunited. Enjoy your time together. Much love to you all!

  • @kathrynsinclare8459
    @kathrynsinclare84594 ай бұрын

    Such a lovely human interest story. We need many more of these types of stories. Life is so interesting. It gives us all such hope. Thank you for sharing your story with us. 😊❤❤❤

  • @JCP969
    @JCP9694 ай бұрын

    "All is well that ends well". This was such a heartwarming story. I wish them a lifetime of love and happiness. God bless! ❤

  • @Trund27
    @Trund273 ай бұрын

    This is where social media can be spectacular and change lives for the much better! How precious and beautiful this story is.

  • @toniagutierrez6464
    @toniagutierrez64643 жыл бұрын

    Same thing happened with my grandpa, he was put up for adoption, his mom was forced to put him up for adoption. When he was 5 his birth mom wanted him back and his adopted mom got scare so she left the states to another country with my grandpa.

  • @tomiekawakami6018
    @tomiekawakami60184 ай бұрын

    She has her moms looks but dads smile and sparkle in her eyes

  • @peachygal4153

    @peachygal4153

    2 ай бұрын

    Nope, she is the female version of her father. All the mom did was cook her for 9 months.

  • @susangordon1833
    @susangordon18334 ай бұрын

    This is so heartwarming and wonderful...so glad they all found each other...❤

  • @amberc.2137
    @amberc.213710 ай бұрын

    That is the GREATEST LOVE STORY of all times!

  • @Afiajustifiee

    @Afiajustifiee

    2 ай бұрын

    This is a real love story and happy for these folks but the greatest of all time is Jesus Christ dying for our sins even when we don't know Him yet.

  • @wendylbranchfield7959
    @wendylbranchfield79593 ай бұрын

    I love this family! This brought a huge smile and tears to my face. Love, love, love love love this post!❤❤❤

  • @jt.s.7418
    @jt.s.74184 ай бұрын

    So happy they were finally complete ❤❤❤

  • @dennysmith7862
    @dennysmith786210 ай бұрын

    This very thing happened to a dear friend I know who is now an elderly lady.... Her parents sent her all the way from another country to the Cape ON HER OWN to have her baby before, GOD FORBID, the neighbours got to hear of it! Needless to say, they all met up 40 years later thanks to daughter's relentless search for her parents... I cried on hearing this... Sad that natural affection (of the parents of this pregnant lady) was missing...

  • @scrappypooh1515
    @scrappypooh15153 жыл бұрын

    I love that story so much!!!!

  • @portlandgirlx0x096
    @portlandgirlx0x0964 ай бұрын

    She looks just like her dad! Im so glad she got to have her wishes ✨️ come true! ❤💙💛

  • @JustDulci
    @JustDulci9 ай бұрын

    This story just made my day! I am so happy for all of you ❤️

  • @Iceland874
    @Iceland8744 ай бұрын

    Beautiful story. I’m so happy their were all reunited.

  • @hannahrose5739
    @hannahrose57393 ай бұрын

    What persistence can do. So unfortunate the attitude taken by the parents, but they have made the best of the situation they were handed in those days, and their determination to be reunited is a lesson in perseverence. My hat is off to them.

  • @mandwandwe3246
    @mandwandwe32463 ай бұрын

    This is a heart-warming story ❤

  • @Thatsinteresting363
    @Thatsinteresting3633 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful story. Heartbreaking yet breathtaking all at once❤️

  • @delphinium5555
    @delphinium55553 ай бұрын

    Beautiful story. God bless them all.

  • @teresalegler2777
    @teresalegler27774 ай бұрын

    How precious is this story. So glad things worked out. May they share many years of get togethers. And yes, definitely her father’s daughter.

  • @kathyhoskin8350
    @kathyhoskin83502 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing!!!

  • @car65los
    @car65los4 ай бұрын

    Blessed and Beautiful.

  • @gladysvogel9442
    @gladysvogel94423 ай бұрын

    I congratulate them for not giving up and pray they Thank God For their Unique Blessing!!❤

  • @beatpirate8
    @beatpirate84 ай бұрын

    i guess back then this happens a lot. so lucky they can be alive n well to find each other! im blubbering w joy!!!

  • @user-wk5jo4hx7w
    @user-wk5jo4hx7w3 ай бұрын

    Beautiful! An exceptional story of true love ❤️

  • @AHHUAT2
    @AHHUAT23 жыл бұрын

    a heart breaking and happy story. luckily they didn't end up in missing out on each other.

  • @toheaveninjesusandmary.3781
    @toheaveninjesusandmary.37819 ай бұрын

    Why am I crying? Beautiful

  • @michaelsmith141
    @michaelsmith1412 жыл бұрын

    Love stories like this and pray all is well with these folks.

  • @annoommen7278
    @annoommen72782 жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing reunion!!My eyes rolled out with tears💕🥰🥰

  • @jmama6058
    @jmama60583 ай бұрын

    Absolutely precious!💕💕💕

  • @EGee-tc1si
    @EGee-tc1si3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for that love that won't quit. Don't quit on your people no matter what hardship there is..

  • @PinkHypatia
    @PinkHypatia4 ай бұрын

    If the young man who got her pregnant was responsible and loyal enough to propose marriage and attend the childbirth, they should’ve been given the chance to be a family. Being denied the right to marry and raise their child is so tragic and wrong. I’m sure that the happiness of their reunion is tainted with sadness and grief for what they lost. It’s a bittersweet ending, but God is good.

  • @Lunafalls

    @Lunafalls

    3 ай бұрын

    Or maybe they'd have been divorced decades ago, as young couples who marry because of a pregnancy very often end up.

  • @kardoyle
    @kardoyle4 ай бұрын

    Makes me cry😢

  • @cherylwilliams9745
    @cherylwilliams97454 ай бұрын

    Beautiful! true love never die.awesome to reunite with love one's.much love and happines.

  • @jibrealyaaseen
    @jibrealyaaseen2 жыл бұрын

    I can’t stop watching this story this is the most beautiful love story ever I am in tears/ first seen this story on Steve Harvey show

  • @mikethemechanic7395
    @mikethemechanic73953 ай бұрын

    My mom passed away 5 years ago. They married in 1969. My Dad reconnected with the woman he dated before my mom. They are 78 and married. Happy for them.

  • @treece01
    @treece014 ай бұрын

    This is awesome. I have an adopted niece and it is really weird because her birth mother and I look more like sisters than my blood sister. So my little niece looks more like me and my mom than anybody else, almost like it was meant to be.

  • @titalinda8515
    @titalinda85154 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful story!!! ❤

  • @bsheehan3269
    @bsheehan32694 ай бұрын

    Brought tears to my eyes. True love.

  • @amywantland5359
    @amywantland53593 жыл бұрын

    I love this Love story ❤

  • @mimim8532
    @mimim85323 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @anitraridgeway2714
    @anitraridgeway27144 ай бұрын

    Aww how sweet. Much happiness to u all.

  • @robynboyd2583
    @robynboyd25834 ай бұрын

    What a great story!

  • @PollyAlice2000
    @PollyAlice20004 ай бұрын

    The sweetest story for really blessed and kind people.

  • @theresahvassman9965
    @theresahvassman99654 ай бұрын

    When your life goes full circle ❤

  • @cherylbarkley8471
    @cherylbarkley84714 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful story!

  • @annabanzon313
    @annabanzon3136 ай бұрын

    Breaks my heart!

  • @marylair7778
    @marylair77783 ай бұрын

    Beautiful story and family!

  • @stargazer5073
    @stargazer50734 ай бұрын

    So happy for them all.

  • @user-gb6re9eg3i
    @user-gb6re9eg3i3 ай бұрын

    CONGRATS TO ALL. VERY SWEET.

  • @carolmccullough-kuchar4782
    @carolmccullough-kuchar47829 ай бұрын

    So heartbreaking that her parents wanted her to go to college, instead of helping her get a college degree while getting to know their granddaughter, by babysitting, and supporting them. Very selfish grandparents. i am glad this guy found his beautiful lady and their daughter. God bless.

  • @Lunafalls

    @Lunafalls

    3 ай бұрын

    It wasn't done like that in the 1960's.

  • @louDAY831

    @louDAY831

    3 ай бұрын

    That's pretty harsh to call the grandparents selfish. We can't possibly know all the details and their reasons for making the decisions they did. You seem to be romanticizing this situation because never once has this couple said they didn't want to put the baby up for adoption, so they apparently agreed that it was the best decision for all.

  • @b0borden437

    @b0borden437

    3 ай бұрын

    That's how things were back then, it was considered shameful if you got pregnant when not married.

  • @dragonmummy1

    @dragonmummy1

    2 ай бұрын

    Such a judgmental statement. I too, had a baby in the 60s while unmarried. Not only was it a shameful thing but the church told me it was a sin. To the world, the very fact that you’d had the baby was a sign that you weren’t fit to be its mother. Luckily, I was reunited later with my grown-up child and my grandsons.

  • @lliamjurdom9505
    @lliamjurdom95054 ай бұрын

    That makes you a little teary eyed ...

  • @lionden4
    @lionden44 ай бұрын

    Wow! Love the story

  • @Hephzibah444
    @Hephzibah4444 ай бұрын

    Beautiful reunion!

  • @daisybb8148
    @daisybb81483 ай бұрын

    Lovely real love story and their daughter is a replica of her father 💕💕💕

  • @ladymomo4702
    @ladymomo47024 ай бұрын

    Omg, I love this for you all

  • @BORN-to-Run
    @BORN-to-Run4 ай бұрын

    AWESOME story. And both of them had been married and had become Widows. I love this story.

  • @allisonknight1763
    @allisonknight17634 ай бұрын

    I am so thankful that they are together!

  • @rampageclover9788
    @rampageclover9788 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful story

  • @silentnight9655
    @silentnight96554 ай бұрын

    There is nothing more natural than a pregnancy. Babies are a gift from the universe.

  • @Lunafalls

    @Lunafalls

    3 ай бұрын

    I assure you that was NOT the attitude of society toward out-of-wedlock pregnancies in the 1960's.

  • @connormcdowell945
    @connormcdowell9452 жыл бұрын

    Such a beautiful story

  • @petercoyotl5192
    @petercoyotl51924 ай бұрын

    Wow, what a heart warming story.

  • @marksstudio
    @marksstudio3 ай бұрын

    What a terrific story. Just amazing. It's uplifting too.

  • @wrenisme
    @wrenisme10 ай бұрын

    What a lovely story.

  • @merindasteele1074
    @merindasteele10742 жыл бұрын

    Love this story. So happy for all.of them

  • @janewatt683
    @janewatt6834 ай бұрын

    A beautiful story!

  • @celinefederici6951
    @celinefederici6951Ай бұрын

    Heartwarming story...a true miracle...so happy for all.

  • @debbieschmidling8158
    @debbieschmidling81583 ай бұрын

    Such a beautiful story! ❤️❤️

  • @judykyle380
    @judykyle3803 жыл бұрын

    She looks like her Dad.

  • @user-hn4oi7yz1h
    @user-hn4oi7yz1h4 ай бұрын

    I am happy they are all together at last. A wonderful story, there can never be too much love.

  • @williamcavanagh8982
    @williamcavanagh89822 ай бұрын

    53yr old daughter...not too shabby...I wouldn't give her up!

  • @nelks1284
    @nelks128410 ай бұрын

    How wonderful!

  • @livelovenow8862
    @livelovenow88622 ай бұрын

    I’m so happy for them all!!❤

  • @chaski777
    @chaski7774 ай бұрын

    Thank you Lord for restoration!🤗🙏💛

  • @ELL289
    @ELL2893 ай бұрын

    This is simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming. I so wish they hadn’t been kept apart.

  • @lorieatamian4532
    @lorieatamian453210 ай бұрын

    I love this story.

  • @lindseywagner7510
    @lindseywagner7510 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful story!

  • @marlaroberts2087
    @marlaroberts20873 ай бұрын

    Wow, what a wonderful story!

  • @virginianewman7738
    @virginianewman77382 ай бұрын

    the most beautiful story. god bless

  • @laurahernandez839
    @laurahernandez8392 жыл бұрын

    When love is strong everything is possible.❤bless them all they found each other again🤗

  • @user-ni1ig7un1e
    @user-ni1ig7un1e3 ай бұрын

    Beautiful story.

  • @annecornine8469
    @annecornine846910 ай бұрын

    Awwww...very sweet ending!!

  • @sheilaparchman2169
    @sheilaparchman21693 ай бұрын

    Amazing!!