Ahmad Thomas was anxious when he met his biological parents face-to-face in early February.
Michelle Hooshing was scared. Twenty-three years earlier — as a 13-year-old girl — she had given up her 1-month-old son for adoption. She hadn’t seen the baby she had named Calvin since that day. She hadn’t known that he’d grown up to be a captain on the University of Oklahoma’s football team.
Alongside Hooshing was Thomas’ biological father Michael Samuel, whom she had found a few months earlier. He had never stopped thinking about Hooshing and Thomas since being separated after the preteen pregnancy was discovered.