A 38-year U.S. tracked through the social networking site Facebook with his two brothers, who did not know it was given up for adoption shortly after birth and had no concrete information about her mother, reported Monday the Daily News.
Jonathan Frank, a shopkeeper who lives in Bayonne, in the state of New Jersey, discovered the names of his brothers, John Martino and Janine, last week, and on Sunday met the three first.
"Facebook is awesome. I feel great, like I just won the lottery," he says in the pages of Frank, who has two daughters and for years has tried to locate her birth mother, who only knew the maiden name.
Frank, who claims to have lived a difficult childhood in New York City neighborhoods of Queens and the Bronx, knew from age five he was adopted.
"I had a void in his heart," says the man, who even came to hire the services of a private detective to track down the woman who gave up for adoption.
It found that Frank's birth mother died three years ago because of liver cancer, but told him that he had two sons, John Martino and Janine.
The U.S. tried to locate them by various means without success, until they realized that one of the 226 John Martin found that Facebook had a friend named "Janine", so decided to write a message and tell his story.
"I know you're my brother or not, or if you're looking for, but for my whole life I've been waiting for this moment," wrote Frank, who just an hour later he received a brief reply in which his brother gave him a number telephone and asked her to call.
John's father and Janine Martino confirmed the story of Jonathan Frank at once and even told them that shortly before his death, the mother of three got a message on a website dedicated to try to find the son she gave up for adoption was more than four decades.
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