{"id":234641,"date":"2020-11-14T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234641"},"modified":"2020-11-16T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:43:25","slug":"mother-son-reunite-35-years-placed-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-son-reunite-35-years-placed-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I prayed for this’: Mother and son reunite 35 years after he was placed for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christian worship pastor Randall Cartwright recently shared a Facebook<\/a>\u00a0post and video detailing the amazing story of how he reunited with his birth mother after taking the DNA test 23andMe.<\/p>\n

Adopted as an infant, Cartwright grew up knowing he was adopted and even had a special letter from his birth mother, who was a teenager at the time, telling him how much she loved him and how she was making a sacrifice to place him with another family that she had handpicked for him. He knew her first name was Kristi, which his adoptive parents had learned by accident, and he had a potential last name from his court papers. But he still wasn’t able to find her.<\/p>\n

After Cartwright took the DNA test, which gives individuals genetic connections, one of the connections he saw was a woman named Julie who was listed as a first cousin. He reached out to Julie in September, who was thrilled to hear from him. She told him he had a half-brother and that his birth mother had been hoping he would find her.<\/p>\n

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