Decade-old story of mother-son adoption reunion continues to amaze and inspire

The year was 2007. Steve Flaig, a delivery driver at a Lowe’s store in Grand Rapids, Michigan, knew he was adopted, but had trouble finding his birth mother after he turned 18. Eventually, thanks to the open adoption records, he found out that he had been spelling his mother’s name incorrectly. When he fixed the spelling and searched for her, he got a hit… much closer to home than he had anticipated.

Son finds birth mom - she works with him!

Christine Tallady – not Talladay, as Steve had assumed – had placed her son for adoption after he was born in October 1985, with the hope that once he turned 18, he would look for her.

MLive.com reported in 2009:

Flaig and Tallady’s inspiring story continues to make the rounds a decade later, thanks to the power of social media.