Woman Searches for Biological Father, Finds Him in Thailand as an Elvis Impersonator
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Woman Searches for Biological Father, Finds Him in Thailand as an Elvis Impersonator
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Jun 11, 2015
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Melonie Dodaro, 46, has never met her biological father. Curious to finally get to know him, the social media marketer from Kelowna, British Columbia, relied on her expertise to track him down.
All Dodaro knew about him was his name—Cees de Jong—and a rough estimate of when and where he had been born. She uploaded a video to Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtag #FindCeesDeJong and started a virtual manhunt. "I've never met my biological father and quite often am overwhelmed with curiosity [about] who he is and if I have any other siblings."
I found out that he had looked for me several times over the years but my mom had changed her last name after marrying, when I was just 3 months old. He called every person in the phone book with her maiden name and offered the police $1000 in 1985 if they could find me.
She's now receiving offers from several media outlets to fly her and her family to meet her dad and half siblings in Thailand. "I'm exhausted from the whirlwind of emotions, but I'm so excited that my family is now 3X the size and I cannot wait to meet them, especially my dad."
[via NYPost.com]
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