A woman who spent eight years desperately searching for her mother has finally found her after a selfie of her wearing a large “Find My Mum” message board went viral on Facebook.
Stacey Lee had become separated from Brenda Drake in 1993 when she was just two years old after a family breakdown and she went to live with her father and two brothers.
Aged 15, the schoolgirl desperately wanted to find her mother and began searching through the electoral roll, Facebook and the internet in a bid to find her. After eight years of being met with dead ends, 23-year-old Stacey was resigned to the fact that she would never see her mother again.
However, Stacey’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Martin Smith, encouraged her to create a message board made out of cardboard with her mother’s name on it along with details such as her birth date and the hospital where she was born. Stacey’s friend then took a photograph of her holding the message board and posted it to her Facebook page that caused the image to be shared more than 100,000 times.
Within 20 hours, Stacey had a call from a woman who said she might be her cousin and put her in touch with 46-year-old Brenda on the social media network. Later the pair were reunited during a tearful meeting at a pub near Brenda’s home in Blackpool, Lancashire.
“When I clicked on my mum’s Facebook profile I couldn’t believe it – she looked just like me!” said Stacey, who lives in Chorley. “I arranged to go and meet my mum the following day in Blackpool. My arms felt like jelly for the whole journey. I went to meet her in a pub and when I saw her I just hugged her and we both cried. We were in shock. It was very emotional. We look a lot like each other and I am quite shy and quiet like her.”
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