Two Sisters Are Reunited With Their Mother After 40 Years
Starla Medlock and Jeannie Toomey are two American sisters who starred in a surprising reunion story after 40 years. For most of their life they had been separated from their mother, after such a long period life finally brought them back together.
In most cases, families remain together from their formation. Unfortunately, sometimes there are unexpected separations that break the peace of the family. However, it is possible that these stories have a happy ending, for example, when families meet again.
Over the years, separated families can lose most of the clues they have about the whereabouts of their missing relative. This was the case with Starla and Jeannie, who, estranged from their mother for so long, became frustrated with the difficulty of the search.
The sisters searched for each other for 40 years
While the sisters searched unsuccessfully for their mother, she did the same on the other side of the world. A woman named Lani Szarmach had lost her daughters, whom she never stopped looking for. As we know, in previous years, a search like this was much more complex than now.
The separation occurred when the oldest of the sisters, Starla, was three years old. Apparently the girls’ father, a US military man who served in Vietnam, had separated them. Starla and Jeannie’s parents met in Thailand, where they married and went to live in Ohio, United States. After Starla’s birth, they were already living in England, where their second daughter was born. Immediately after Jeannie’s birth, the couple separated.
Custody of the girls was left to the father, who returned to the United States with his daughters. Time passed without them knowing anything about their mother, but they wanted to find her. The women affirm that their father never spoke badly about their mother. Meanwhile, Lani was also trying to reunite with her daughters one day.
The sisters meet again thanks to a photograph
The girls’ mother, now married to Mark Szarmach, had jealously guarded a photograph of her daughters. He used this image to search for them for 40 years, without any success. Her current husband knew the story and also carried a copy of that photo.
A few years ago, the sisters’ father passed away; his death was the main clue to achieve the reunion. With some information about his wife’s daughters and their photograph, Mark located the obituary of the late father. Thanks to this news, they were able to locate Starla and Jeannie through the social network Facebook.
Once located, they were virtually contacted. This story had an unexpected twist, because the meeting via Facebook was followed by hundreds of people who witnessed the moving story. Since then they have planned to meet again in person.
Finally in recent months, the two sisters were reunited after 40 years with their mother. The reunion took place at the airport in Kansas City, United States. This beautiful coincidence had been longed for by all three for years.
Starla confesses that she felt with if time stopped, Jeannie, who is a year younger, feels that she is now complete. Now they have a new challenge , the mother wants to communicate with her daughters to catch up, but she is not fluent in English. For now, they communicate through the language of love, the mother prepares Thai food for them.
The moved and now blissful mother had dreamed of cooking for her daughters. Since then with a renewed and complete family, they live temporarily in the United States. Hopefully they have many plans and dreams to fulfill. On the other hand, sharing your story with the world gives you the opportunity to receive blessings and good wishes from millions of people.
As you can see, it is a most moving story. If you have sisters, surely you have imagined how bad they both had to be separated for no less than 4 entire decades. Although they have lost many years of their life apart, now they can enjoy the rest of their lives having each other! It is without a doubt a moving story worthy of a television movie.
