The week's good news: January 23, 2020

It wasn't all bad!

1. Woman reunites with long-lost father after he's a suggested Facebook friend

When Karen Harris turned 18, she learned her biological father's name, profession, and hometown, but it took a few decades — and the help of social media — to finally track him down. Harris, 56, was adopted as an infant. While she is "grateful" to her adoptive family, Harris told The Scotsman she never felt a total "sense of belonging." Now that she's discovered her father, she's "found connection and completion and I'm cherishing it." Harris lives in England, and as soon as she was an adult, she asked a social worker for information on her biological parents. She found her mother 10 years later, but her dad's whereabouts remained a mystery until recently, when a man with his name, Trevor Sinden, appeared on Harris' Facebook page as a person she might know. She reached out, and it was a match. Last week, they finally met, and Harris feels "incredibly blessed to find him now."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.