{"id":321446,"date":"2024-11-10T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321446"},"modified":"2024-11-10T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T17:17:25","slug":"son-reunites-mother-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/son-reunites-mother-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Son reunites with mother decades after being placed for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A sweet reunion took place recently for Vamarr Hunter and his mother Lenore Lindsey, who placed him for adoption shortly after giving birth to him decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most joyful story and time in my life,&#8221; said Lindsey, &#8220;In my senior years, all of this has come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey was just 17 years old when she gave birth to Hunter, and he was 35 when he learned he was adopted. Years later, he decided to search for his mother and underwent genetic testing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-man-vamarr-hunter-reunites-long-lost-mother-lenore-lindsey-helps-run-give-sugah-bakery-south-shore\/15528133\/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_FB&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR04kiYNiOc9onhXlsNWIESp7zq5_UWib_XhkZsSKX6BSY82zYmR3qybgfc_aem_47GPqAgQdccUjrHTWNva7w#m3a7zrpw78fi544r6ot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC 7<\/a>. He learned that his birth mother lived in the same South Shore Chicago neighborhood that he did and that he was a regular customer at the bakery she owned, Give Me Some Sugah. He said the experience &#8220;further strengthens my faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=15528489\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/medical-groups-science-deniers-heartbeat-alive-dismemberment\/\">Medical groups become the new \u2018science deniers\u2019 in attempt to make abortion acceptable<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After connecting with his birth mother, he was also able to meet the sister he never knew he had as well as an entire extended family he didn&#8217;t know for most of his life. Hunter has four children of his own, all living in the same neighborhood as their grandmother without realizing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">&#8220;When I called him, that connection was so immediate,&#8221; Lindsey said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even explain it. It was just like everything in my heart just broke open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She believes it was God who brought them together after all of these years.<\/p>\n<p>At the time that the mother and son reunited, she was facing a health crisis. Hunter decided to run the bakery until she recovered, though he had no experience baking. Once she was well again, they began working together. He is now most proud of his pound cake and he hopes to keep the bakery in the family and pass it on to his children some day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t make up for time and days gone by,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;What you can do is properly utilize the time that you have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/pardon-face-act-prisoners-petition\/\"><b><i>Call on President Trump to pardon the FACE Act prisoners on his first day in office.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sweet reunion took place recently for Vamarr Hunter and his mother Lenore Lindsey, who placed him for adoption shortly after giving birth to him decades earlier. &#8220;It&#8217;s the most joyful story and time in my life,&#8221; said Lindsey, &#8220;In my senior years, all of this has come together.&#8221; Lindsey was just 17 years old 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