Ben Preiss
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This story shows that while the digital era may help thousands of people to reconnect with people from the past, sometimes there’s nothing as powerful as lady luck. When Steve Flaig became an adult, with the support of his adoptive parents, he began searching for his birth mother. After scouring phone books and using the web as a tool, he was frustrated that his mother’s common name made her near impossible to track. One day, while telling his boss at Lowe’s about the quest he had begun giving up on, he was more than a bit overwhelmed to discover his boss not only knew his mother, but that Steve had been working with her. Ironically, she was head cashier at Lowe’s Home-Improvement.  Steve Flaig wasn't sure how to approach his co-worker with his big news. It would seem brash to walk up and say, "Hi, I'm Steve, your son." How would she react to that, he wondered.
Flaig's long search for his birth mother ended in early October when he learned that she was the woman he previously knew only as Chris, the head cashier at a Lowe's home-improvement store just outside Grand Rapids, in Kent County's Plainfield Township.
"I would walk by her, look at her from a distance, not knowing how to approach her," Flaig, 22, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Wednesday. "You don't come stocked with information on how to deal with this."
In October, around his 22nd birthday, Flaig took out the paperwork from DA Blodgett and realized he had been spelling his birth mother's surname wrong as "Talladay."
He typed "Tallady" into a search engine and came up with a home address that was less than a mile from the Lowe's store and just around the corner from where his adoptive parents raised him.
When he mentioned it to his boss, she said, "You mean Chris Tallady, who works here?"
Flaig was stunned: "I was like, there's no possible way."
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