1. Finding a brother
Let’s start from the beginning, with a man and woman in California.
He was a young florist, and she came to work at his store. There
was an attraction from almost the first day and two years later they
were married. Their daughter was born the following year, and their
son was born a year later. For almost ten years things were great,
with the couple owning and running a small business.
Just before Christmas the building they leased with two other
businesses caught fire. The owner had no fire insurance and the
couples, insurance was limited. By late January, the strain was
almost too much for the couple. The wife wanted to move to
southern California and live there, but the husband was running a
franchise flower shop. There were many debates, and they were
drifting apart. The wife began seeing another man. Then they
divorced. The oldest child was very much a daddy’s girl.
Shdaddy’swith the father and the boy with the mother. We could go
into details at the time but it was simple, somehow the father ended
up with the girl. Then the mother moved to southern California and
the father protested but she left anyway. It took him almost a year
locate her and his son. The mother came up with creative stories
about the father to cloud the issue each time he would want to visit
her city, Pasadena, for the kids to spend some time with each
other. The mother told the girl many negative stories about him
and she said it in front both of the children.
2. There were plans for a summer visit where the little boy and his
sister would spend some time together, but when the daughter and
Dad arrived the house was vacant. There was no one there, no
one in the community knew anything but that the woman’s husband
died in a car accident a few months back.
The girl and her dad went back home and the father didn’t want his
daughters’ education wouldn’t suffer. So father moved to Dayton,
Ohio. Dad had a great business and had a store on the east and
west side. His daughter went on to college and studied botany.
She got her degree in that subject, and the next thing you know
she’s taken over the upper level of his first building and is a full
pledge botanist. The next thing you know she married and has a
child of her own.
For some 25 years she tried many different ways to find her
brother. Then last Christmas it really got her. Her husband stepped
in because he felt with the loss of her father earlier that year, he
wanted to do everything he could to help her. He contacted V
LOCATORS and wanted to pay us to help. We explained there
wasn’t any cost to the family, we get the sponsors.
We started our process of getting information, tons of information
and picture alone weren’t enough and that’s why we’ve been giving
you a story. To get to the end of this story and share the good
news, here is what we found out:
The mother passed away when the boy was a senior in high
school, and he went to live with friends from the church he
attended.
He worked and attended college and got a degree in, and
here is the kicker Botany.
He was 6’ tall and his sister was 5’6”
He was in the service for 3 years and then married.
3. He then started a florist shop.
One thing about industries, they usually have conventions and
we found one in Chicago and gave a list of companies
attending and, yes, on one of them, his name appeared.
His sister was also planning to attend.
Initially we just called the individual, but she wasn’t at home but on
route to the convention. Then her husband wanted to be part of it.
So, he and his kids drove to Chicago and surprised her with a visit
and said he wanted to introduce her to someone he knows there.
They all walked slowly to the other side of the convention. When
they turned the corner, she saw one man with tears in his eyes.
They walked up to him and her husband said Sue, “I want to
introduce you to your brother.” They embraced and everyone that
who knew was crying with joy that only come from ones heart that
was touched with visual joy.
Now you know why we do what we do because you can’t buy that
type of joy at any price.
NOTE:
One of the initial questions asked, if we can use any images,
names or true information for promotions and guess what, 9 out of
10 say no!
So in this story for example, we have to leave out information to
protect their privacy.