Living Under A Pseudonym

“I’d been living under a pseudonym for a long time, but I’d been having flashes of my proper name; things were slowly returning,” said Gabriel in an interview. He was about to complete two years in the church when some of the past memories started to appear infront of him.

A Permanent Job

Gabriel’s hard work at the church finally paid off when he was offered a permanent job of working part-time in a nursing home. Although Gabriel’s memories were returning, he wasn’t sure of what he should do with this information. Everything started to fall in the right place when Gabriel had an eye surgery where he mentioned his real name.

The Lengthiest Letter

“I sat down and wrote the longest letter I’ve ever written in my life – seven and a half pages on both sides of the paper,” Gabriel remembered. He quickly dropped the note in the nearest post box and waited for the reply. Within a few days, he received the most awaited letter.

Hi Dad 

“[The message] said, ‘Hi, Dad,’ and that was enough to make me cry,” recalled Gabriel. “[Jennifer] wrote that she’d finished the letter, and she still loved me,” he added. His forgotten daughter wasn’t the only person who was eager to hear from Gabriel.

Old Love Returned

Within a few minutes of reading the letter, Gabriel received a call. He remembered the precious moment as: “Ten minutes later, the phone rang, and it was Pam. We talked until the battery died.” He was overwhelmed by all the love that he was receiving after decades of assuming that he was on his own in the world.

The Emotional Reunion


Jennifer who was 32 years old when Gabriel was identified, immediately booked the tickets to Mackay. “He met me at the airport with a big bunch of flowers. It was like it was all in slow motion, and we ran through the airport into each other’s arms.”