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Father united with unknown son after 58 years · Kvetch & Release

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  This is just such an incredible story here, folks. As a young man,
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  Jim Orrin's life took some unexpected turns, one of them leading him to
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  Sweden, where he ended up encountering a woman who would later give birth to
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  a child that he never knew that he had. More than a decade later,
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  the teenager Michael Anderberg began to ponder the identity of his biological father.
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  And I have joining me right now, is Jim or On that father?
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  How are you doing today, Jim, I'm doing okay. So tell us
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  a little bit about how this all happened from your perspective. Well, I'll
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  make it short. You know, I got a phone quote from my son
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  in La and he said, dead, I'm not the firstborn anymore. Are
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  you sitting down? I said no, I'm on the trademill. He said,
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  now go sit down. I got something to tell you. So I
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  sat down and he said, you know, do you know you have a
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  son in Sweden? I said, come on, don't joke around, you
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  know. He said, yeah, you got a son. I said,
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  I don't have a son. He said, yes, you have. He
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  he found he found me and I'm calling you telling you that. So I
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  couldn't believe it. I was in shock for a while, you know.
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  I said, are you serious? He said, yeah, I am.
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  And they said he wants to call you. Do you accept his call?
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  I said, of course, he's my son. Of course he can call
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  me. And that's how it happened. He called me, and then the
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  COVID came, so so he couldn't come over and I couldn't go down there.
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  So yeah, he so he said, since you cannot come, I
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  will come down, you know. So he came. Now after fifty seven
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  years, you know. So that was a very shocking surprise. You know.
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  So you're eighty one years old, it's been fifty seven years. So
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  what was what's a conversation? Like, how do you that? Yeah,
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  they said that there was very emotional, very yeah. I cannot describe in
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  words how I felt, you know. And he was very happy that at
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  least he found me after so many years searching for me. And my niece
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  had a son that took DNA and his daughter bought him a DNA parties,
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  you know, and that's how he found out that we were in Canada.
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  I've been in Canada forty two years now, and I must have passed him
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  many times in Sweden as a little kid because we didn't live far away from
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  each other, and I didn't know that that I had a son, you
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  know, So it was very emotional when we met in Detroit when he landed.
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  So what's it like when you had that first hug there in Detroit.
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  I tried to control my emotion, you know, it's yeah, it's uh.
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  I cannot describe that I felt. Everything was kind of if I was.
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  Yeah, I cannot describe how I felt because I haven't felt that before.
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  Can you imagine you have a son and he's fifty seven years old and
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  you don't know anything about it, and just one day he dropped in,
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  you know, I said, I'm your son, you know. So it's
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  very emotional. I wish I knew that I had a son, but I
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  didn't know that, so, you know, I missed a lot of things
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  with him, you know. Well, and it's not just a son that
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  you've come to find out as well, but he has children too. Yes,
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  I got Gret, Gret great great kids in Sweden. Yeah, so
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  I got a big family in Sweden now. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm
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  very happy. I hope I can visit Sweden a year from now, something
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  like that, if I'm healthy and strong enough. And so how long is
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  he in town for right now? Well, he would be here two weeks
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  and we are going in Toronto because I got three sons in Toronto, so
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  he's going to meet them Saturday. So they are very excited to meet his
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  hob brother. You know, well, Jim, I want to thank you
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  so much for joining me to discuss this. Just what an incredible story.
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  Congratulations on you know this news, Mazel tuv. Just unbelievable. Thank you
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  so much for your time today. Thank you, thank you very much.
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  Thank you. You're welcome. Folks. What do you think about that?
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  One? You can text in at ten eight hundred or you could call five
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  one nine seven ninety two c KLW. What an incredible story, father and
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  son meeting for the first time after fifty seven years. Not only that,
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  but finding out, hey, it's not just a son that I have,
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  but there's grandkids and great grandkids here too. How amazing