In 2020, Jordyn O'Neil’s maternal grandmother, who’d raised her since she was a baby, passed away. Her mother had died when she was a child and with no other family that she knew of, she set out to see if she could find her father. After taking a DNA test, she connected with her grandmother’s sister, who was able to tell Jordyn her father’s name: Brian Ahern.
With this new information and some old photos she had from her childhood, Jordyn turned to a local Facebook group for an area in Southeast Detroit called "Downriver and Friends." That’s when her search really picked up steam. “So many people knew him,” she recalls. “They were messaging me with his phone number, his address. Somebody went and knocked on his door to tell him about the post.”
Ahern says he never stopped thinking about his daughter, who he hadn’t seen since she was eight months old, when Jordyn’s mom suddenly took her and moved away. He always hoped that they’d reunite one day, so he was excited when his daughter finally called him. Soon after the phone call, they met in person for the first time in 25 years. Now, the two talk every day, and Ahern says he wants to make up for lost time and be there for his daughter, saying, “I'm gonna be with her as much as I can be.”
Source: Good Morning America