Crystal Riportella-Crose
Crystal Riportella-Crose was adopted when she was an infant and grew up in Vermont. As an interracial child in a Caucasian family, she always wondered what her birth mother looked like. So when she got older, she began to search for her, and eventually found her birth mother on the social networking site, MySpace.
Crystal tells Janet Babin how she ended up meeting her birth mother in person, and what that odd mix of feelings was like.
- See photos of Crystal's reunion with her birth mother
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Alison and Pat Keenan
Alison Keenan found a husband and a father for her children in a newspaper ad. Not that she meant to.
In 1987, Alison was newly-divorced and needed a babysitter for her two boys. She looked through the classifieds. There she saw a phone number for someone named "Pat." When Alison discovered that Pat was a man she was nervous, but she met with him anyway. He took the job and moved into their apartment immediately. Nine months later, Pat Keenan stole their hearts, married Alison and adopted the boys.
They talk with Dick Gordon about how the babysitting job turned into romance and the first Father's Day when the boys acknowledged Pat as "Dad." This story originally aired on June 13, 2008.
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