Kiwi woman found her long lost father 31 years after thinking he had passed away

After 31 years of thinking, her father had passed away, a Christchurch woman tracked him down in the most unusual way.

Sharnee Butler joined Jono and Ben to talk about her extraordinary story.

As a teenager, Sharnee recounted, she believed that her father was still out there and had been looking for him for years.

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"I've been searching for so long and I've applied for missing pieces, lost some sounds with no luck, and then I just took it into my own hands," Sharnee told Jono and Ben.

"One night just looked on social media and then hours later I found this man that fit every description that I was given.

It turns out the man had no idea that Sharnee existed, but everything he knew about her mother matched.

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Sharnee’s touching story went viral after she shared it on TikTok, now she has set up a Give A Little page in hopes that she can meet him where he lives in Wales with his two sons – potentially Sharnee’s younger brothers – and have a DNA test done to confirm that he is her father.

What an incredible story!