Mother and daughter meet again after nearly 50 years of being lost

Recently, Mr. Le Van Tuan (54 years old, residing in Hoang Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province) went to Phu Thien district, Gia Lai province to find his biological mother, Ms. Pham Thi Lam (90 years old) and family members. family after nearly half a century of being lost.

Sell ​​each copper pot to find you

Mrs. Lam said that her family used to live in Phu Ly town, Ha Nam province. One day in 1973, she and her husband, Mr. Nguyen Van Quoc, shared the cooperative’s rice and straw. Before leaving, Mrs. Lam cooked rice, boiled 2 eggs, and told her eldest daughter, Nguyen Thi Anh (at that time, 9 years old) to take rice for her younger brother, Nguyen Van Tuan (5 years old), and then took her to her house. grandma’s house play.

In the afternoon, when Mrs. Lam and her husband came home from work, they found that the rice and 2 eggs were still intact, but couldn’t find the 2 children, so they went to look and only met the daughter, but the younger brother was nowhere to be found. Mrs. Lam and her husband asked the whole village to wade into the ponds to find out because they were afraid of drowning, but they were all hopeless.

For many years after that, Lam and her husband hired people to go everywhere to find their children, even going to the northern border provinces because there was information that her son was kidnapped and sold to China.

“Since the loss of the child, the husband and wife don’t want to eat or drink anything anymore. A fortune-teller said that my son had fallen into the water when he crossed the river. But when he died, he had to see the body. If he hadn’t seen it, we would continue to search” – Ms. Lam said.

Tears of reunion after nearly half a century of being lost

In order to have toll fees and hire someone to find a child, Mrs. Lam and her husband had to sell each copper pot in the house, but the son still had no sound. In 1979, Lam and her husband moved with their daughter to Phu Thien district, Gia Lai province under the new economic system. Mrs. Lam still did not give up hope, often wrote letters to her hometown to ask for news, but all were hopeless.

Meanwhile, Mr. Tuan vaguely recalled, that day, a neighbor named Phuc (about 15 years old) took him to the train station (about 5 km from his house). When they boarded the train, the two lost each other. At this time, he could only cry and cry and was comforted by a man (later known as Tran Van Kiem) who brought him home to Thanh Hoa province to raise him. Next, Mr. Tuan was adopted by a childless couple near Mr. Kiem’s ​​house and changed his surname to adoptive father, Le Van Tuan.

Like a dream come true

During his stay with his adoptive parents, Mr. Tuan was cared for and loved, but always remembered the family that gave birth to him. However, due to difficult conditions, it was not until 2019 that he determined to find his lost family.

In his memory, Mr. Tuan only remembers his sister who used to play and take care of him, named Anh, whose family was a carpenter specializing in building bullock carts, buggy carts and was lost around 1973. From that meager information, Mr. Tuan had Ask relatives to post on social networks hoping to find their family again. From Mr. Kiem’s ​​account, Mr. Tuan also found Phu Ly train station, but no one knows about his family.

Meanwhile, in Gia Lai, the older sister Nguyen Thi Anh also often told her children and grandchildren about the family story of the lost brother named Tuan, since 1973. In a social network once, Mrs. Anh’s family saw that Tuan’s information about finding relatives had similarities with Ms. Anh’s lost brother, so they asked for a phone number to contact.

“I looked at the picture and saw that this person was very similar to my father, when I called, I could tell what was in my family before such as imagining the house, next to the house with a water well, next to the well with a litchi tree … then I’m sure I’m sure this is my brother” – Mrs. Anh recounted and shared many family stories, which she had forgotten, but when she heard her brother tell her story, she remembered.

Finding information about her brother, Ms. Anh quickly let her daughter in to pick up Mrs. Lam, who was at this time in a temple in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province. At first, Mrs. Lam didn’t believe it, thinking her children lied to let her go home, so she refused to leave the temple. The second time, Mrs. Anh let the second daughter in, showing Mr. Tuan’s picture, but Mrs. Lam still didn’t believe it because “the face looks like the father, but my son is white, but why is he so black”. However, Mrs. Lam also agreed to follow her granddaughter back home.