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Edson Sanderson earliest memory of the trip is on a hot bus to the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo , with his mother and Younger Brother Emerson. They were hundreds of Miles Away from her father in Sonora with no intention of Coming Back .

at the time, he was about three years old and had no idea he would not see his father again for More Than 30 years.

they were finally reunited by a call on Facebook in April 2019.

the memory of the time Edson, now 38, says: "When I arrived at The Airport it was only enthusiasm. I think I hugged him a little too closely!"

Edson (right) with Keith Sanderson and Cleverson

The Details of what happened to Edson and his brother after their arrival in Sao Paulo are unclear. He can never establish the exact sequence of events.

The only thing he knows for sure that his mother abandoned him and he ended up with a spell in an orphanage and lives on the street. He never found out what happened to his brother.

In The Orphanage , he developed a reputation for running away, so that, to take over when Keith Sanderson travelled from the United Kingdom in 1988, Edson, he was sure he would be there, too.

Keith and his wife, Jennifer, of Wiltshire, was told they were too old to adopt, in the UK, so instead of Edson was found by a U.S. Agency.

Edson adoptive parents

Of Edson ' s point of view, it was all very sudden, "people said in The Orphanage , 'do you want to have A Family ?' and I said 'Yes'. Then they brought in this huge, people-and I Remember only to foot and hugging his leg. "

The Sandersons also adopted an older boy by the name of Cleverson and a few weeks later The Boys found themselves in a new country, to get acquainted with new parents and a new language.

"My adopted family were incredibly sweet," says Edson, who now lives in Trowbridge. "Although for The First month, I hated the food and it was extremely cold.

"I Remember actually in search of snow, because Cleverson and I thought it was an object that was just lying around Like gravel rather than The Weather . "

Edson today with his wife Catherine and children

by the time Edson 18, The Urge was to find his birth parents really had to hold on, but his first search in 1998, on an ancestry website revealed nothing.

he has his own children in The Years that followed, only strengthened his desire to make a connection with his roots, but it was not Until December 2018, when his wife Katharina had the idea to use The Power of Social Media , that his luck Changed .

The complaint, Edson posted on Facebook

she posted a photo on Facebook of Edson, together with all The Information he had. his Brazilian family of his papers

they were not really ready for the speed with which The Post was read and shared by thousands of people.

"Within 24 hours I had a message from my niece, I'm sitting here, with your father now,'" Edson recalls.

Edson birth-father Ananias, a former sugar cane worker, says he had all the hope, Edson, and Emerson.

He says, when their mother took them to São Paulo in all The Years she had promised she would be Back Soon . "You would even say money taken from our neighbors, you would buy things that it remembers for you," Ananias.

When he discovered that she had left him for another man and did not intend to return, he asked to go to his sister, to keep track of São Paulo, the young below.

"you could not find any trace of them or their mother," he says. "I was devastated. "

decades later, when he saw Edson's post, he says that he was overwhelmed. "It felt Like I would be a father again.

"It was a good moment. I was really happy, but also grateful for The Family that had raised him in England. "

Although Edson was overjoyed when he reunited with his father a few months later, in Brazil, he was aware of the time you had lost.

"I'm A Stranger ," he says. "Growing Up , I couldn't even Remember what my father looked Like . "

in The moment Edson and his father at last

to know you were still waiting on the results of a DNA test to confirm the paternal link, but decided not to delay the reunification, because Ananias's ill-health.

After a week, they would have formed a new connection, and the connection was cemented, over a football match.

"We both just sat watching on his bed, as his team Sao Paulo , and have a beer together. That's The Thing , all the young faces with your father.

"Every time I saw him, I gave him a big hug and Kiss . "

Edson (left), with his relatives Tika and the father of Ananias

Although the search for his father, was A Dream for Edson that he'll never be satisfied, while his brother remains missing.

He had always hoped his mother would answer, and, in a strange twist of fate, he was finally able to ask.

A private investigator in Sao Paulo seen the Facebook appeal was and track her down.

A Skype call was arranged, but Edson recalls that she was evasive. "When I asked you what happened with me and Emerson everything, what would you say, was that she could not Remember . "

Disappointed, but undeterred, Edson says, his search for Emerson more.

While the DNA results have confirmed Ananias the paternity of the joy was unfortunately short-lived. In June, Edson, the father, died peacefully in his sleep.

But, Edson says meeting with Ananias was made The Best decision he ever made. "I had a good feeling it was my biological family," he says.

"I found him and he died knowing his son is safe and Well . "

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Source of news: bbc.com