A woman who spent eight years desperately searching for her biological mother was reunited within hours after her 'Find My Mum' campaign went viral.
Stacey Lee, who was separated from her mother when she was two-years-old, said she was on the verge of giving-up ever being reunited with her mum.
But after her Facebook selfie went viral – Stacey was put in touch with her mother in less than 24hours.
"When I clicked on my mum's Facebook profile I couldn't believe it," said 23-year-old Stacey "She looked like me."
"I sent her a message and told her that I had missed her and that I wanted to build a relationship with her.
"She sent me her phone number and I called her. I was shaking as I dialled the number and I just sat staring at the phone for 15 minutes before I made the call."
The mother and daughter were separated in the early 1990s when Stacey and her two brothers moved to live with her father.
Driven Stacey started her eight year-long search for her biological mother on her 15th birthday but only found success after her boyfriend Martin Smith, 22, encouraged her to take the search online.
Stacey, of Chorley, posted a photograph of herself holding a cardboard sign with her mother's name, the hospital she was delivered in, as well as her birth date.
The touching photograph was shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook.
Just one day after speaking to her mother for the first time in 21 years, the emotional pair we reunited face-to-face in a pub near 46-year-old Brenda's home in Blackpool, Lancashire.
"It was very emotional and I was so happy that I had finally found her," said Stacey.
"I went to meet her in a pub and when I saw her I just hugged her and we both cried. We were in shock. It was very emotional.
"We look a lot like each other and I am quite shy and quiet like her."
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