Man unexpectedly finds his birth mother through DNA test

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
CANASTOTA, New York (WABC) -- A touching reunion was nearly 65 years in the making.

Wayne Grow from upstate New York was born in 1954.
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His mother Dorothy Thompson was still in high school at the time so she agreed to an adoption.

The break came when Wayne decided to take a DNA test which came with a list of DNA matches.

That's when a cousin he never knew decided to share Dorothy's phone number.

"And there was this long pause on the other end and she says 'you're him'. I says 'I'm who' And she goes like this - 'you're my son', and at that point we both lost it."
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"I feel more alive, my family's complete," said Dorothy.



Wayne took that DNA test on Ancestry because it was on sale for $79.
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