Positivity: Reunion of Brothers
Monday, July 23, 2007
David Schumann spent his childhood bouncing in and out of different orphanages and foster homes. He was adopted by an abusive family. He knew almost nothing about his birth family.
But the 41-year-old Lake Neepaulin resident took an important step toward putting that dark past behind him on Sunday when someone he lost almost four decades ago came back into his life.
For the first time since he was two years old, he came face to face with Fredrick Stetson, his brother.
“It’s been overwhelming,” Schumann said, standing outside his Woodside Drive house with Stetson. “It’s such a relief. It was like a big missing puzzle piece out of my life.”
After decades of being unable to find his brother or learn anything about him, Schumann found Stetson, a 43-year-old auto mechanic, simply by doing a quick search on the Internet last week.
After finding that he lived in Lakewood, Schumann’s wife, Lydia, found the number by dialing 411 and was connected with Stetson’s wife, Mary.
“I asked her if she had a husband who had been looking for a brother his whole life,” Lydia Schumann said.
The answer was yes, and last Monday, the two lost brothers spoke for the very first time. They spoke on the phone every day since for between four and six hours, before finally meeting on Sunday.
“When we first met, it wasn’t awkward at all,” Stetson said. “It just felt right. We’re so alike, it’s like we’re twins.”
For Schumann, it was an important moment that helped bring a little closure to a life darkened by a troubled past. …..
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