A woman in Eastern Europe has found her biological father after suddenly discovering she was adopted from birth.
Moreover, her search eventually landed him at her virtual doorstep on Facebook—where the two had been friends for three years.
It all began in 2016, when Tamuna Museridze was going through the personal effects of the woman whom she once thought was her mother. Among them, she found a birth certificate with her name on it, but the wrong date.
A journalist by trade, Tamuna began to wonder if she were adopted—or perhaps a victim of a child trafficking ring in her home country of Georgia.
After doing some research, she set up a Facebook group called Vedzeb, or ‘I’m Searching’ in the beautiful Georgian language. Time passed, and eventually someone from rural Georgia messaged her on the social media platform saying that, on the off-chance it might help Tamuna’s search, she knew a woman who had concealed a pregnancy and traveled to the capital of Tbilisi in September 1984—the month of Tamuna’s birth.
This message included a name—but it didn’t exist on social media, so Tamuna posted as far as her virtual words could carry: did anyone know this woman? As it turned out, someone did, and they reached out saying if Tamuna would agree to take the post down for privacy’s sake, she would take a DNA test in sync with Tamuna.
The name was the stranger’s aunt, and the DNA test confirmed the two women were cousins. It wasn’t long before she found the name of her biological father as well.
“The first two months were shocking, I couldn’t believe these things were happening to me,” Tamuna told the BBC. “I couldn’t believe I had found them.”
Gurgen Khorava, a man from a rural village in western Georgia, had been following Tamuna’s work as a journalist, and the two had been friends on Facebook for three years.
“He didn’t even know my birth mother had been pregnant,” says Tamuna. “It was a huge surprise for him.”
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The two reached out and organized a meeting at the 72-year-old’s home. When she arrived, the stunned daughter explained they just sat together for some time staring at each other trying to create a connection that matched the feeling of connection they both had in their hearts from the moment they saw each other.
Eventually, a very Georgian connection arose—a love of dancing. Gurgen had been a renowned man at the State Ballet of Georgia, while Tamuna’s daughters practice the same art form.
Tamuna also got in contact with her biological mother, but unfortunately this meeting was not a merry one.
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Gurgen decided to invite his whole family—up to the level of second cousins—for a dinner and reunion to welcome Tamuna into the family, delightful clips of which were captured by the BBC.
“It was strange, the moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter,” she recalls. “I had so many mixed emotions.”
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