The detective called a woman named Marie Pauline Oakley. “Do you know a Gordon Michael?” he asked. There was silence on the line, followed by sobbing.
Marie was Mike’s biological mother. Decades ago, as a poor young girl with a sick baby (little Mike had a hole in his stomach), she gave him up for adoption because she couldn’t afford his medical treatment. She thought she was saving his life.
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She had prayed her whole life to know what happened to her son. She thought she would never see him again. And now, 60 years later, she was told her boy had been found. He was homeless, but he was alive.
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