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This is so cool:
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/sto...340.xml&coll=6

Banarenth

I stumbled upon a sister I never knew I had a few years ago when I was applying for a job. And another in College. Neither of them knew where my dad was at the time.

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Wow! I don't really beieve things like that are accidents Ban do you?

Banarenth

I don't know really. I do think some things definitely happen for a reason, but everything can't be completely scripted so it's possible. I know it's been said that if you stand still long enough, everyone you've ever known will walk by you. Doubt it's really true, but who knows. Nothing really came from the meetings except a very shocked teacher that bugged us about it for weeks afterwards.

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AmericanAngel

I don't want to give my personal info in order to go to page 2!

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"It's not like the old days, when you'd say, 'No, you're my kid,'" Pat Flaig said. "It's like I told my younger son, 'You not only have one family; you have two.'
"It's like one big extended family."
Four years ago, when Steve turned 18, he asked DA Blodgett for Children, the agency that arranged his adoption, for his background information.
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A couple of months later it came, with his birth mother's name.
He searched the Internet for her address and came up empty.
In October, around his 22nd birthday, he took out the paperwork from DA Blodgett and realized he had been spelling his birth mother's surname wrong as "Talladay."
He typed "Tallady" into a search engine, coming up with an address on West River Drive. That was less than a mile from the Lowe's store, 4297 Plainfield Ave. NE, and just around the corner from where his parents raised him.
He mentioned it to his boss.
She said: "You mean Chris Tallady, who works here?"
He was stunned.
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"I was like, there's no possible way," he said. "It's just such a bizarre situation."
He did not dare approach her, and told only a few friends and family.
His father went through Tallady's checkout line and noticed her name tag, but said nothing. He figured he would leave it to his son.
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Last Wednesday on his day off, Steve happened to be driving past the DA Blodgett offices. He decided to stop in and told them of his find.
An employee there volunteered to call Tallady for him.
Tallady, 45, was surprised to get the call at Lowe's.
How did the DA Blodgett people know where she worked?
"The first thing that crossed my mind is something was wrong with him," she said.
Was he sick? Did he need a blood transfusion?
Nothing like that, the Blodgett worker assured her.

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"Christine," she said, "he works with you."
"It was a shock," Tallady said. "I started crying.
"I figured he would call me sometime, but not like this."
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She wept much that day, tears of joy.
Steve called her later that day.
Last Friday, the two who until then had occasionally said "hi" as co-workers do, met at the Cheers Good Time Saloon near the store. They hugged, sat and talked for 2 1/2 hours.
On Tuesday, they hugged again in the store where both were working the day shift.
They know their paths must have crossed many times. Both graduated from Northview High School. Both attended St. Jude Catholic Church.
"We both hate olives, both love roller coasters," Tallady said.
Flaig hasn't decided whether to search now for his birth father.
He's anxious to meet Tallady's other two children, Brandon, 10, and Alexandra, 12, his half-siblings.
Her husband, Dale, out of town on business, wants to be there when they meet, maybe this weekend.
"My husband is wonderful," Tallady said. "He wants it to be a whole family thing.
"I have a complete family now, all my kids. It's a perfect time of year. It's the best Christmas present ever."
Send e-mail to the author: pshellenbarger@grpress.com

Dusty

Hey , Thanks my son for posting the rest of the story cause I too did not want to sign in.

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