Yep!, after seven years of actively looking for my father with all dead ends, I decided to post a pic to Facebook and have my friends share it, as a plea!, it had heaps of shares and very positive comments, everyone was very supportive and although I wasn't very confident, I was hopeful.
Then a week later......
A Facebook inbox message from a John brown, surely this was a cruel hoax!,
So after a few days and more pleading inbox messages from a John brown, I decided to ring the number he provided, putting my phone on silent, I ring, no answer, I left a message "hi John, this is the woman from Facebook looking for her dad, ill ring back in 5", 2 minutes later I ring, he answers, "hi Cindy I'm your dad, I have been looking for you", omfg!!!, my blood runs cold!!, we talk for a bit, small talk, and a week later we are taking a DNA test,
So we wait, and we wait , and we wait some more, then one Sunday night the ping of my email on my iPhone goes off, 9pm!, that's a late one, normally i would leave it to the morning to check, but for some reason i have a look,
Dear Cindy,
the results of the recent DNA test has confirmed that John Brown is the biological Father of Cindy Hobbs because they share the same genetic make up, the percentage is 99.98652332656216%
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I waste no time getting on facebook and telling the world!!!
so i talk to Dad on the phone the next day, he tells me he is coming down on the weekend to meet his Daughter!! omfg!!!, am i ready??....
so the weekend arrives (to cut a long story short) and we meet at the city oval hotel for lunch, omg we were smiling like little school children, when he spoke to me he could not hold eye contact for fear of giggling i was the same.
So we survived lunch and we made arrangements to meet at my place for tea, i pulled out all the stops, even set the table lol, i felt like a proud house wife, polished the cheap cutlery, picked out the best op shop plates, and even cooked roast potatoes, something that i knew i could not fuck up!, and i was complimented on them ;)
we caught up a fe days later, we both needed a day to let things sink in and he had other family to see, i forgot to mention that he came from Perth the Victoria to meet me.
We met at the cemetery and his sister Sue was there with her husband and their son, i hugged them all and sucked in the moment as a memory that will stay with me forever.
Why the cemetery i can hear you asking...
Well Dad wanted to show me Nan's grave and his Brothers grave, all these years i have been going to the cementery to see my Mums Mum and the whole time if i had have turned around i ould have basically been standing on my other Nan"s grave !!
We went from there to the pub and had a cuppa, he had to leave after that, he hugged me and we both felt the ping of heart ache of separation, i miss him and i want him back, i guess im scared his going to disappear again, i know he wont on reality but you know....
Dad, I love you, i miss you, i treasure you xxx
