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Family Reunion

A man who was separated from his family when he was just eight years old has described the emotional experience of hearing his mother’s voice for the first time in 46 years after calling in help from a specialist people finder organisation in a last ditch attempt to find his missing parents.

Sterling Afflick now lives in the US with his wife and son but had never given up hope of finding the English family he was separated from as a child.

Dr Afflick found it hard to hold back the tears as he described the moment UK-based people tracing experts FinderMonkey called him to say they had managed to track down a member of his long lost family.

“I have gone from a person with only a memory for a past to a man with a family again and all of this in the space of a day,” said Dr Afflick, who was taken to Jamaica as a young boy and prevented from having any contact with his family in the UK. 

He said he sat for a long time looking at a letter from the FinderMonkey team that brought him the news that although his father had died, his mother was still alive and living in West Wickham with his younger brother.

“It took me a full hour before I could control my tears and my emotions long enough to read the letter,” he admitted.

“I called my wife and my son and gave them the news that Mom and Grandma were still alive,” explained Dr Afflick, who has since discovered that letters from his family were burned by the people who were supposed to be caring for him in Jamaica, preventing him from having any contact with them.

He finally found the courage to pick up the phone and call the number sent to him by FinderMonkey.

“We had a wonderful reunion on the phone, we had so much to talk about, but most of all, just to hear my mom’s voice again after almost half a century, was the single most memorable highlight of my existence,” he said.  

He said he was now planning to fly to the UK with his wife and son for an emotional reunion with the mother he thought he had lost forever.

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