Given up for adoption when he was just two-months-old, Charles Bruce Pate spent most of his life searching for his birth mother.
Though he lived a happy life with his adoptive parents, he still felt something was missing. He spent decades calling strangers and possible relatives, trying to find a lead.
Little did he know that his mother, Pauline Lott, was hundreds of miles away longing to one day be reunited with her son.
According to the Tennessean, Lott became pregnant at age 15 and her parents forced her to give her son up for adoption. She cared for him for two months until his adoption date.
Fast-forward to present day, and Pate began to look into his genealogy through ancestry.com. That's when he finally got the tip he'd been searching for.
On Christmas Day 2013, Pauline's nephew was able to connect Pate with his birth mother. And soon after, he called her "mother" for the very first time.
Finally, on January 2015, Pate traveled from Tennessee to Shreveport, LA to reunite with his family and surprise his mother. Reunited after 73 years, Pate kissed his mother on the cheek for the very first time — and it was all captured on camera.
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