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Reality Show Links Dad and Daughter after Mother trys to destroy relationship
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Reality Show Links Woman to Dad Posted on Apr 3, 2009 Her parents divorced before she was six. She stayed with her mother who did everything she could to convince Alexia O'Malley that her father didn't care about her and that she didn't want to know him. Alexia's mother removed all traces of her father from the house. Over the years, she prevented any contact between father and daughter, even to the extent of returning all his cards and letters. But that didn't stop Alexia from wanting her father. So when she turned 18, she moved out of her mother's Pocono, Pennsylvania house and in with her boyfriend. She also started trying to find her dad whose last name she didn't even know. Stymied in her own efforts, she contacted the TV reality show "The Locator" whose motto is "You can't find peace until you find all the pieces." Alexia told show personnel "I'm looking for my dad. I haven't seen him since I was six. My mom hides him from me and doesn't talk to me about him. It's not fair to me." The show's investigators located Alexia's dad, John Keurerleber, an hour away in New Jersey and they were reunited with tears and hugs. It's another story of a mother determined to separate a father from his child and the child from her father. Why she did it, we'll probably never know, but the mother's desire for exclusive contact with- and control over- the child is clear. Unlike so many of these stories, though, this one looks like it has a happy ending. Read about it below (Pocono Record, 3/28/09). ----------------------------------------------- http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbc...0340/-1/NEWS01 Reality show reunites Pocono woman with biological father By AL ZAGOFSKY For the Pocono Record March 28, 2009 A Pocono Summit woman was reunited with her biological father by Troy Dunn of the TV reality series "The Locator." The reunion took place in Jim Thorpe last November and airs on the WE cable channel at 9 p.m. today. On "The Locator," host Dunn reunites families, lost loved ones and best friends. The show's tag line is "You can't find peace until you find all the pieces." This episode, "A Daughter's Mission," began as a request from a woman identified as Alexia O'Malley, 18. Her parents divorced before her sixth birthday and - except for a brief period of joint custody, she hadn't seen or heard from her father since. It was a rocky divorce and when Alexia's mother remarried, all references to Alexia's father were removed, his name was never mentioned, and his cards and letters were returned. "His face was always blurry," Alexia said. "I feel like I was abandoned and I want to know why he did it." Her mom was always negative whenever her father was mentioned. She told Alexia that she would not want to meet her father. At the offices of "The Locator," producers were touched by the story but wondered if her father actually was trouble and if, at 18, Alexia was mature enough to deal with such a situation. Dunn met with Alexia. "I'm looking for my dad," she said. "I haven't seen him since I was 6. My mom hides him from me and doesn't talk to me about him. It's not fair to me." Alexia added, "I wonder what has happened to him and what happened between my mom and dad that stopped him from seeing me." When Alexia started her first job, she obtained her birth certificate and learned that her birth name was Alexia Keuerleber, daughter of John Keuerleber. She had been raised believing her last name was the same as her stepfather's, O'Malley. When she reached 18, Alexia moved out from her mother's house and went to live with her boyfriend's family. She was ready to search for her father and her mother couldn't stop her. Using the information from Alexia's birth certificate and tracing the name in a search through public records, "The Locator" staff quickly found John Keuerleber living in New Jersey, just an hour away from Alexia. "The Locator" staff arranged for Dunn to meet Alexia and her boyfriend, Zack, at the Carbon County Cultural Project building in Jim Thorpe. There, Dunn told Alexia that he located her father and the reunion took place with hugs and tears. The meeting and the long talk that followed were videotaped by a crew of 10. "It is the greatest job in the world," said Tiffany Reis, vice president of Asylum Entertainment, the company that films the series. "We get to help people. That's the greatest gift you can get." "I feel great about it when our content is good like this because it is really heartfelt for the family," said producer Kate Turnipseed. "Whenever Troy reunites people, I always cry. I know what it feels like to miss somebody. Just that this girl was missing her father and got to meet him. It was beautiful." "The Locator" series evolved from Troy Dunn's personal experience. In 1990, Troy helped his own mother, who was adopted as a baby, locate her biological family. That event inspired Dunn to build an organization to help people reunite with long-lost friends and family members. |
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