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Facebook search leads to family reunion

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    Social network helps end 50-year separation

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-- There -- a time of family reunion time to catch up here at that -- for -- childhood memories.

Larry Wilkerson gathering at this let's go home is no ordinary home coming.

I'm the youngest of the -- -- -- -- the youngest of sixteen siblings were christened with separated from his Brothers and sisters after losing both his parents you know fifty years ago.

It was just five years old living in Georgia -- -- Finland eventually adopted.

Foes alike -- -- split.

It was a rare day of school.

-- difficult emotionally.

As the years passed his new family moved several times finally settling down in Pennsylvania where he now lives.

Well -- and eventually married had children of his own.

All the while hunted by memories of -- life he left behind the separation.

-- -- hard on the and found out this weekend of there's very difficult for mine.

The shuttle -- And will focus and siblings never gave up hope of finding their little brother we -- mother -- I want Fred someday we -- we will get back together this is where.

Have come Crawford -- -- -- nephew James Robert gear turn to the Internet and FaceBook for clues to his uncle's whereabouts.

-- search slated to Wilson's wife's FaceBook page where he discovered photos that his uncle Larry.

Call -- the males in the and we have a very this thing we'll where they were alive in a lot of ways.

So it's kinda hard.

-- and because he had excellent similarities to the rest of the room.

A long distance phone -- -- -- and two will person's lifetime search and the beginning of a wonderful new chapter in life.

-- know in fact somebody hand you -- enough.

And -- toward senator opinion and 49 years after being separated from all he loved.

We'll Kristen was reunited with his Brothers and sisters this weekend just get phone -- each.

-- Lands his four surviving siblings overjoyed that after nearly five decades apart.

They're little brother.

Is home.

-- -- Mean definitely he -- Duke's Fox News on Sunday.

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