“A Vietnamese woman who traveled to Taiwan to find the father she had never met, ended up working for him without knowing it…Their reunion only came about because she mistakenly left some keepsakes at his home, which he had given to her mother more than 40 years before. Tsai Han-chao, 77, said he could not help crying when he found out he had a daughter he never knew about.”
This heartwarming father-daughter reunion is one of the most bizarre stories I’ve ever read. It is also a stunning rebuke to the Single Motherhood by Choice crowd’s assertion that kids don’t feel a sense of loss when they don’t have a relationship with their fathers.
Maid finds boss is missing father
BBC, 1/22/08
A Vietnamese woman who travelled to Taiwan to find the father she had never met, ended up working for him without knowing it.
Tran Thi Kham, 40, did not discover the truth until after leaving her employer.
Their reunion only came about because she mistakenly left some keepsakes at his home, which he had given to her mother more than 40 years before.
Tsai Han-chao, 77, said he could not help crying when he found out he had a daughter he never knew about.
“Life’s ups and downs are just like television drama. How could I have ever dreamed that she is my daughter? I couldn’t stop crying when we were finally united,” he told Taiwan’s TVBS cable news channel.
Ms Tran had travelled to Taiwan a few years earlier to search for her father.
Her only clues were a gold ring and a photograph of him as a young man.
He had given the mementoes to a Vietnamese woman he had fallen in love with in Hong Kong in 1967. (more…)
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