10 minutes of posting on Facebook, student finds father who disappeared for 21 years

July 25,Nguyen Van Manh (21 years old, 3rd year student, Vinh University of Technical Education)Submit information to a local fanpage, thanks to this page to find my father, with the message: "My childhood only had my mother and I love her very much, I promise to live a good life for her. Now I just wish to meet my father once, tell him many things about our lives together, and also want to tell him that I miss and love him very much."

After posting on social media for more than 10 minutes, Manh received a phone call from a female officer of the Women's Union of Xuan Hai Commune (Nghi Xuan District, Ha Tinh), informing him that his father had been found. Manh immediately drove from Vinh City to Nghi Xuan District to have the female officer take him to his father's house.

At noon, Mr. Nguyen Van LocReturning, father and son met and both shed tears. He took Manh to the sea to confide. "The feeling of seeing my father for the first time after 21 years was hard to describe, my eyes were stinging. I was happy but also a bit resentful, asking why after such a long time my father did not come back to us, my father just kept silent," Manh said.

Mr. Loc (residing in Xuan Hai commune, Nghi Xuan, Ha Tinh) met Mrs. Nguyen Thi Duong (inDo Luong, Nghe An) in 1995 and aboutwife's hometown. When Manh was born, he wasLiving in poverty and living with his wife's family made him feel suffocated, often having conflicts with some of his wife's family. He left for the South to do business, many years later, he started a new family, had 4 more children, then moved back to his old hometown to live.

Since the day her father passed away, mother and daughter have had a difficult life, relying on each other, living on vegetables and porridge, and have had no news from their father's hometown. Currently, Mrs. Xuan works for a freezer factory in Dong Nai to earn money to support her children.When he was young, Manh felt very sad because he didn't have a father, while many of his friends had their fathers take them to and from school. He always wished he had a father and that his father would take care of him. When he grew up, Manh repeatedly asked for information about his father but to no avail.

Interspersed with the four-hour conversation between Manh and his father was a phone call between Mr. Loc and Mrs. Duong after many years of hiatus. The 54-year-old man told his wife that he had thought that when she passed away, she wouldwill remarry, because she is beautiful, many people notice. Many times he still wants to go back to see her to visit her home, visit her children, but he is afraid that she has a new family so he does not dare.

Manh also met his father's new wife, and clearly stated that he only wanted to see his father, and did not ask for any division of property.After the meeting, Mr. Loc took his son back to Vinh to study. Manh said he would visit his father in his free time.

"I tDon't ask if mom hates dad? Mom replied that she never hated dad for anything, that day dad left was not wrong, it was because of the circumstances. Mom just wanted dad to come back to see mom and me one more time", Manh said. He planned toAfter graduating from college, I will apply to go to Korea to earn money to pay off debt and help my mother.

Ms. Tran Thi Huong, President of the Women's Union of Xuan Hai Commune, said that yesterday, after reading information on social media, she saw that the content included the names of Mr. Loc and some people in her commune, so she contacted the village to confirm whether it was true or not. At first, Ms. Huong was skeptical and did not dare to ask, afraid of affecting their families.

“After confirming the correct information, I called the person who left the phone number online. The young man then went home to meet his father. Witnessing that reunion, I and many others were very moved. The commune leaders encouraged and congratulated Mr. Loc and his son,” said Ms. Huong.

* Some character names have been changed.