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Diana (Wynter) Gordon finds long-lost brother after 16 years
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Hi friends, family, loved ones, and anyone who kindly takes the time to read this post. You have my sincere gratitude . Yesterday afternoon I experienced a true miracle. I found my brother who has been missing for the last 16 years. He's ALIVE!!!!!!!!
The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster.
Yesterday, as I pulled to side of the road and laid eyes on the homeless man sitting at the bus stop with only his 2 crates, my heart was beating, the tears had already begun to pour down my face . You see, after the first decade went by, I lost hope of ever finding him. These last few years, I accepted the fact that we were never going to find him. In my heart I had put him to rest.
Los Angeles has a population of nearly 10 million people. How is it that he was sitting alone at a bus stop less than a few miles from my home? Also we are all from New York, so it is a surprise to find him here.
When I said hello, he beamed his old mega watt smile that is now missing two teeth and gave me a light hearted, childlike "hey, how are you?" he did not recognize me as his sister. As I continued to talk to him, I quickly realized my brother who had once built computers and gadgets out of spare parts has suffered severely in ways I have only begun to understand. His memory is fragmented. His spirit defeated. He has only had his own thoughts to comfort him during this long stretch of time and because of that, a form of mental illness has set in.
I asked what he had been doing all these years and his one reply was, "SURVIVING."
I noticed the ninja like move he had perfected as a kid to emulate his favorite video game, "mortal combat," had now become a nervous twitch. In fact, now that I have spent several days caring for him in my home and interacting with him, he truly seems to be stuck in this childhood happy place.
I remember when we were kids, all of the little things that took away the sting of the pain inflicted on him: a movie, a certain cereal, a comic strip. Those small, little pleasures that children enjoy are the only things he has been gently asking me for.
I guess that was the only way for him to survive all these years. His happy place.
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http://www.gofundme.com/hope4David
Other info in the article is that she plans to get medical help for him, she has made calls to counsellors, social workers, hospitals and friends.
She also plans to get a conservatorship lawyer so she can make decisions on his behalf and her goal is to get him psychiatric help and assisted living (alongside the medical care).
Congrats to Diana
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