When Stacey Lee was two years old, she and her two boys moved in with their father to live with him and his family. Lee, now 23 years old, had not seen her mother, Brenda Drake, in two decades that had followed — until a popular Facebook post brought the two of them together.
After years of unsuccessfully attempting to find her long-lost mother, the lady followed the advise of her boyfriend and took a picture of herself holding up a cardboard sign with her mother’s information written on it, which she then placed on Facebook.
Within a day, she received a call from a woman claiming to be Lee’s cousin, who connected her with Drake. “I couldn’t believe it when I glanced at my mother’s Facebook page and saw that she looked just like me!’
She provided me with her phone number, which I then dialed. As I dialed the number, my hands were trembling, and I simply sat there gazing at the phone for 15 minutes before making the call.”
Lee soon discovered that her mother had remarried, changed her surname and had given birth to four additional children. The next day, the mother and daughter met in person in a bar in Lancashire.