Young Man Reunites With Biological Mother, They Discover They Have Something Special in Common

Holly Shearer was only 15 years old when she gave birth to her son, Benjamin Hulleberg, and placed him for adoption. The two went 20 years never seeing each other only to find out they had been working at the same hospital for two years.

Shearer met Angela and Brian Hulleberg through an adoption agency as the couple was struggling with infertility.

“My husband and I were married and…we had infertility issues, so we thought , well, there’s kids out there who need a home and that we could love,” Angela Hulleberg told “Good Morning America.”

The couple ended up adopting Benjamin Hulleberg who was born in 2001.

“It was sad and happy, happy for us, but I’m sure super hard for Holly,” Angela Hulleberg said.

Continuing she said, “We just knew we could feel how much love Holly had for him.”

As a result, they chose not to keep the fact that Benjamin Hulleberg was adopted a secret from him as he grew up.

“We always had told him, you know, hey how much she loved him, because she did. Never felt that she never loved this child,” Angela Hulleberg said.

Shearer told “Good Morning America” that when holidays came around and Benjamin Hulleberg’s birthday, it was “a roller coaster of emotions.”

“I thought about him all the time,” she added.

Benjamin Hulleberg said that the topic of his adoption “was always a very positive conversation.”

“It was my parents either expressing gratitude for Holly or me talking about how I’m grateful for her and how I wanna meet her one day,” he said.

As he got older, trying to find his birth mother was difficult. However, on his 20th birthday he received a Facebook message from Shearer, after she found him through a google search.