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A Seattle woman trying to find her dad was shocked by all the support she received on Facebook.
Over the weekend, she got a call from a man who says he's her father. She explained to KIRO 7's Linzi Sheldon that she needs one more thing before she can meet him.
“It was an unknown call and I told my fiancée, 'Oh my god, this might be him,' and so I picked it up and he says 'Hi, this is Rick,' and I said, 'Hi Rick.'”
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Tina Gomez says the man on the other end of the line told her on Sunday that he believes he's the birth father she's been searching for.
"He said, 'You know I remember your mom, she was very beautiful, and Im just amazed, I'm excited,' and he said, 'I don't know what to say,'" Gomez said.
Gomez wasn't sure what to say either. Last week she had posted a photo on Facebook asking for help in tracking down her father.
He and Gomez's mother, Alice, met in Lodi California in 1977.
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"They were together for two months, and then he said, 'I'm moving to Seattle.' When I was born, my mom said that she did not have the chance to tell him that, 'I was pregnant' and that, you know, he was going to have a little girl," Gomez said.
Gomez, who now has a family of her own, always felt a little piece of her was missing.
Then, she says, Rick Castellanos called her, and even sent her a photo of himself.
He lives just a couple hours away in Vancouver, Washington, and Gomez says his story matched her mother's. Gomez says she now just needs to confirm it's her dad with a DNA test before she gets too attached.
"He's totally on board with sending DNA; he's really excited, he says 'I have no problem,'" Gomez said.
It could be a reunion years in the making, all thanks to a simple post online, which was shared more than 700 times.
Gomez says she hopes to get the DNA kit to Castellanos by Wednesday, and expects it to take about six to eight weeks to get results.
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