Google Search Reunites Dad With Daughter After 30 Years
Googling yourself can be daunting. Some people are morbidly afraid of what they might find, and others fear disappointment with what they don't find. But every now and then, self-googling can return the kind of life-changing results you never thought possible.
In a story that is pretty much destined to be made into a movie (albeit a Lifetime one), according to the Huffington Post, a Georgia woman recently reunited with her father after more than 30 years of separation. The catalyst behind the event, of course, was Google. April Becker-Antoniou googled her own name and, while sifting through the search results, came across a site that her father, Dr. Scott Becker, had set up nearly 10 years prior in the hopes that she might one day stumble across it. Titled "Scott Becker looking for April," the Web site reads: "Dear April, When you read this, please send an email to: april@aprilbecker.com. I'm your dad and I would really like to talk to ya. When I get your email, I will ask you a couple of questions that only you would know so I can filter out the crazies out there. By the way, You have a lil sister that REALLY wants to talk to you :-) Dad Scott Robert Becker."
Becker divorced his wife shortly after their daughter's birth. Without telling young April much about what happened, the mother took her and fled to Southern California. April told Atlanta's WXIA, "They got into an argument, had differences of opinion, and my mom left." Since then, Dr. Becker says that he has spent somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 trying to get in touch with his daughter, using private investigators while fending off frauds claiming to be his child. Their long-awaited meeting in Atlanta was as emotional as you would expect (CBS has video here.), and the daughter documented all of it via her Facebook page in an album titled "Meeting My Dad 09." Dr. Becker is confident that this time it's the real thing, and will not be seeking DNA test confirmation. That's probably a good move. Considering they have 30 years to make up, they probably don't want to lose any more time than they already have. [From: WXIA, Huffington Post]
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