A Chicago man’s favorite bakery held a secret. He never imagined the owner was his birth mother.

It was the very first time he met his mother and what followed can warm anyone's heart.

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Representational image of a senior black woman, in her 60s, and an African-American man, in his 30s at a bakery (Cover image source } Getty Images: Kali9)

Being told that they are adopted could lead to a lot of questions in a person's mind, and while people seek out their biological parents for years, some are connected to them all along without even realizing it. Vamarr Hunter was put up for adoption as an infant and was informed of the same when he was 35 years old. This meant that the family he shared his entire life with at the time was not his real family. It certainly came as a shock to Hunter but he never really felt like he fit in anyway. As per the New York Post, Hunter never felt like he belonged in his household.

However, he would have never guessed that he was adopted. Back in 2022, Hunter saw a show about genealogy on television and decided to look for his biological mother. He sought the help of California-based genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas. “He had a high match in his Ancestry matches, and it was easy to build the family tree and figure it out from there,” she said.

The genealogist figured out who Hunter’s birth mother was and gave her his number. It turned out that he knew her as well, just not as his mother. The Chicago native was a frequent visitor of the bakery called Give Me Some Sugah, which was owned by his birth mother, Lenore Lindsey. When Hunter received the call from the bakery’s number, he was a bit confused but it did not take long for him to realize what was going on.

“When I knew who he was, we just started screaming on the phone. We were beside ourselves,” Lindsey recalled. She had to give away her son for adoption when she was 17 years old. She even said that she refused to hold him after birth as it would have made giving him away a lot harder. Now, she can finally shower as much love and affection on her son as she wants.

Screenshot showing Vamarr Hunter and his birth mother Lindsey. (Image credit: YouTube | ABC 7 Chicago) — Screenshot showing Vamarr Hunter and his birth mother Lindsey. (Image source: YouTube | ABC 7 Chicago)

Shortly after mother and son reconnected, Lindsey had a stroke and had to be hospitalized, To keep her bakery afloat, Hunter quit his job and started running it full-time. “I’m loving every minute of it. It’s pretty therapeutic for me,” he said. After years of not having a sense of belonging somewhere, he finally found his true family.

A similar story took place with one Stacy Barbie, who much like Hunter, was also adopted at birth. However, she never felt out of place with her adoptive family. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t have questions about her past and where she really came from. Her adoptive family understood this and gave her as much support as possible to be successful in her investigation.

She met her birth father and the rest of his extended family. Stacy even said that she had two families now. “I think just everybody wants to know where they came from,” she said. “It’s meeting family but it’s more like meeting friends because I have my family and now I have a bonus family.”