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Kirk Kellerhals was just 2 years old when he was adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam. Nearly 50 years and another continent\u00a0later, in 2017, he was\u00a0miraculously reunited with his biological mother.<\/p>\n

Giving up a child is a traumatic experience. This is especially true if it’s\u00a0due to certain\u00a0circumstances and not the parent’s own will. That was the situation for a young Vietnamese teenager who, upon giving up her child, did not give up hope that she would meet him again. Having held on to hope for 48 years, she finally got to meet her son again in an emotional reunion.<\/p>\n

It was a nightmare for Thuy-Nga Thi Nibblet when she conceived her son in her teenage years.\u00a0CBN News<\/a>\u00a0reported that she became expectant during the Vietnam War. This was after getting romantically involved with an American military man. Her son was half-Vietnamese\/half-American. This was something that Nibblet\u2019s father could not accept.<\/p>\n

She gave birth to her son after spending months in an orphanage where her father had taken her while expectant. This led to Nibblet losing all contact with the child\u2019s father. When the child was born, Nibblet\u2019s father took him to an orphanage. All that Nibblet knew from her father was that she gave birth to a son but was not allowed to see him.<\/p>\n

After two years had passed, the boy was adopted by an American family, and\u00a0named Kirk Kellerhals. He was raised in the United States, far away from his biological mother. The family that adopted him remained honest about his adoption, and Kellerhals assumed that his parents died in the Vietnam War. This was the reason why, he believed, he ended up at the orphanage.<\/p>\n

Kellerhals lived with this belief until that changed one day. Out of the desire to want to know more about where he came from, he submitted his information to an online DNA database.<\/p>\n

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After a few weeks had passed, Kellerhals\u00a0received an email message\u00a0that was rather vague. The email contained a telephone number that requested him to call. Although uncertain about what it was about, he decided to call the number.<\/p>\n

On the other side\u00a0was a woman and the words she said upon answering the call made Kellerhals’ feet cold. She told him that she thought he was her son.<\/p>\n

The woman on the phone was Nibblet. Soon after,\u00a0she\u00a0and Kellerhals began to share stories and information about each other. This\u00a0revealed that Kellerhals was born on the same day that Nibblet gave birth to her son.<\/p>\n

At that time, the online DNA database had already\u00a0reached out to inform Kellerhals they had found a DNA match, but he’d dismissed the finding. Now he realized they had actually found his mother in Nibblet.<\/p>\n

Nibblet was no longer living in Vietnam as she had migrated to Texas, where she\u00a0was married. She and her husband then made plans to take a trip to meet\u00a0Kellerhals. After one long drive,\u00a0Kellerhals and Nibblet\u2019s lives were changed forever. She got to not only meet her long-lost son for the first time, but she also met her daughter-in-law as well as her grandchildren.<\/p>\n

This was a very emotional moment, a family reunion like none other. Nibblet was unable to hold back tears as she embraced her son for the first time\u00a0since she was never allowed to see him after giving birth to him.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, Nibblet had one more surprise for Kellerhals \u2014 his biological father, Sheldon “Skip” Soule, 74 at the time, was alive and based in New York. The long-lost family all reunited, and Kellerhals even met his half-siblings on both sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we talked, the parental bond felt so natural,\u201d he told\u00a0People<\/a>\u00a0in 2019. \u201cYou can\u2019t put it in words. From the very first conversation we had, it ended with, \u2018I love you.\u2019”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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