My Grandma Asked Me To Find Her First Love Before She Passed Away — But My Mom Broke Down Crying And Told Me To Stop

“My grandmother is dying. She just wants to see him one last time.”

Long silence.

Then finally:

“Let me see what I can find.”

By afternoon, I had three possible addresses, two disconnected phone numbers, and a distant relative living in Ohio who might know something.

I called everyone.

Wrong numbers.

Dead ends.

People who vaguely remembered him decades earlier.continue reading …