Two Fathers,Two Lost Sons

After my wife and I separated she moved away with our son Matthew then aged two and I use to visit every month / six weeks. On his sixth birthday I visited and the house was empty no furniture they had gone. Eleven years later I had re-married and we owned a restaurant in Bath, we were just about to close for lunch when an American tourist walked in saying he had lost his way and was looking for directions to an address in Bath. I gave him directions then ask what was the nature of his visit to our lovely City. He told me that eleven years ago he wnt to visit his astranged wife and six year old son and that when he arrived they had disappeared from their home and eleven years later he was given information that they were now living in England. This stopped me in my tracks, we both had sons we had not seen since their sixth birthday both had gone without trace with their Mothers and were now both seventeen years of age. I told him that this was fate and we must find both boys. To cut along story a little shorter a policeman friend of mine agreed to help with our search. Within 48 hours we found the address of the Americans son, they were re-united. Two weeks later we found an address for my son who was living 60 miles from me. My friend telephoned the local police station in the town of my sons address and the Policeman who answered the phone was a long lost colleague of my friend and they had trained together at the Police Academy in London and had not spoken for 15 years.....another happy reunion ! My friend gave the name of my son to the policeman and asked if he was known to him ? The policeman replied that my son was his next door neighbour and that my son and his son, were best friends and walked to school together !!!!!! Finally, when my son Matthew and I got together he came to stay with me and I arranged that we would meet my policeman friend geoff for a beer so we could thank him. Geoff brought a colleague with him who was involved with helping a little bit, during our conversation Matthew, my son, told how his Mum had re-married a man from Newcastle who was just leaving his post in the Royal Navy, after further inquiries it turned out they Geoff`s colleague Mike had served on the same ship with my ex-wife`s husband and new him well. This is all true....... my son is now almost 30 years old, he is married and I have two beautiful grandaughters. That is my happy ending to a new begining !!