“It’s been 13,075 days since you last saw me,” it said. “I didn’t want to make you wait one more.”
When teenage moms give birth to their kids at a very young age, they are not always ready neither financially, nor mentally to take care of the babies. Their newborns are often given up for adoption and end up with new moms and dads. This was the case with Stacey Faix who had given birth at the age of 15, about 35 years ago.
This woman thought she would never see her son ever again, but luckily, that wasn’t the case. The state of Pennsylvania passed a law back in November 2017 that allowed adopted kids to have access to the info about their biological mom and dad. When Stephen Strawn, Faix’s son, read about this, he was determined to meet the woman who brought him into the world.
Once he got the necessary documents finally found his biological mom`s name, he could finally begin the search. He told Inside Edition that “It was a big sigh of relief.”
The first thing he did was to try to find her on Facebook. I guess that’s one of the biggest benefits of social networking sites, that you can get find the people who are long lost. When the result of a woman with that name came up to him, he sent her a message, saying, “Hey, I have a really weird question. Did you put a baby boy up for adoption in 1982?” The answer he got was the one he was hoping to hear for so long. He then continue saying, “I think you may be my biological mother.”
These mom and son have common interests. It turned out they would both take part in the Pittsburgh Half Marathon as team members of the organization Red, White and Blue
The day of the race was the day the long lost son and mom would finally meet each other. However, Faix had no idea she would see her son. She only realized that would happen after someone handed her a card that said, “It’s been 13,075 days since you last saw me. I didn’t want you to wait one more day.”
“We must have hugged about 10 different times,” Strawn said. “We get done hugging, look at each other and then hug again. It just felt really surreal that it was finally happening because it happened so fast.”