15-Year-Old Mom Gives Up Baby for Adoption — 50 Years Later, She Gets an Unexpected Call

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A teacher in Richmond, Virginia, who always knew that she was adopted, had been trying to find  her birth parents for 50 years. When she was finally reunited with her mom, little did she know more surprises awaited in the following weeks to come, making her “feel so whole and complete.”

Bonnie Davis, an English teacher at Armstrong High School, had always wanted to find her biological mother, but to little success. Davis only knew that her birth name was LaTonya Tandelet Dean, and she was given up for adoption when her mother, Sheila Dean, was 15.