Idaho Woman Finds Out Homeless Man She Had Seen Around Town is Long-Lost Father

An Idaho woman was utterly flabbergasted after she made an unlikely connection with a homeless man in the town of Port Falls.

Shoshannah Hensley said she was working as a cashier when a customer approached her, she told WPXI-TV. “As far as I knew he was just another gentleman on the streets coming in,” she said.

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The man then handed her his food stamp card and she noticed something amiss.

“I saw the name and my heart dropped, and I said ‘what’s your middle name’ and he goes ‘Eugene.'” Hensley said.

“I hit my knees and said ‘You’re my biological father. I’ve been searching for you for over twenty years.'”

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Brian Eugene Hensley, Sr. said he was also stunned.

“We both started shaking,” he said, according to KHQ-TV. “I don’t wanna cry,” he told the station. “When you miss a child, you feel empty for years.”

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“I never thought the day would come. I never thought I would get the chance just to see what he looked like,” added Shoshannah.

Her father said he won’t let her go, adding: “I’m gonna be there in every way, whatever it takes.”

Shoshannah said she last saw him only 50 miles away from her hometown of Sandpoint when she was only a toddler.

She plans to invite him to live with her.

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