STEVE JONES, AGED 44, IS A JOINER WHO LIVES IN JAMES BRINDLEY CLOSE, ETRURIA.
The day of Dayna's birth was one of the best days of my life.
'I was only 18 and living in Sydney with her mother Robyn. We had a place in Manly, God's country, where we would wake up each morning to see the waves crashing at the shore.
I'd met Robyn while on a 12-month contract as a joiner. She was pregnant by the time my working visa expired and I ended up staying an extra two years so I could be there for Dayna's birth. She was a fantastic baby - as good as gold and a real daddy's girl. But one day I woke up to a loud knocking on the door.
I was whisked off by the police and taken to a displaced person camp with around 2,000 Vietnamese boat people. Not long after, I was on a plane back to England.
Robyn and gordons New Jewelrys stores Dayna came to live with me for a while but things didn't work out. The last time I saw Dayna she was 18-months-old and was in a taxi to the airport with her mother.
We kept in touch for several months, but we both started other relationships. Eventually, all the contact stopped.
Dayna never left my mind. I'd think about her every day. I wondered if she had brothers or sisters, if she'd got married or if she was still living in Australia at all. I wanted to try to find her but I didn't know where to start.
I'm computer illiterate, but in January this year, my friend went on Facebook and I asked him to have a look for my daughter. I thought the best bet was to try to find her mother, which we did and amazingly found Dayna.
I couldn't believe when she had named me as her father on her page and said that coming to England and meeting me would be a dream come true. Now we speak every day on Facebook and a couple of times on the telephone. Shortly after we got back in touch I had Dayna's name and her birthday tattooed on my arm. The whole beauty of it is that my two other children Erin, aged 18, and Grant, aged 17, get on with Dayna really well.
I think Dayna thought they might not have known about her because she was a bit of a dirty secret, but they have been brought up knowing that they had a sister. When they found out I'd managed to track Dayna down it was a dream come true for them as well.
She is the most amazing person in the world.
She is straight and honest.
DAYNA MITCHELL, PROMOTIONAL MODEL, AGED 24, OF HELENSBURGH, ONE HOUR SOUTH OF replica breitling SYDNEY I woke up on January 20 and checked my email and it absolutely blew me away.
'I'd been looking for my dad since I was 11-years-old. My mother had told me about him, but only a few details and I treasured lots of old photographs of us together when I was a baby.
I'd done everything to try to find my father. I'd tried the Salvation Army as well as getting some of my friends in the UK to look. But because Jones is such a popular name, it was very difficult.
I set up a page on the website Facebook and got my mother to join as I thought it would give me more of a chance of finding him. In my personal information, I named my father and said that my one dream was to travel to England and meet him. I posted old photographs in the hope that someone would recognise them.
When I saw my father's message, it was like a dream come true. My moth
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