08/07/2025
Grab a tissue
This is the single photo Naomi Rose Randall had from the day she was given up for adoption.
It was June 4, 2001, and her biological mother, Nikki Lindsay, tearfully handed over her 1-day-old daughter to her new adoptive mother, Teri Terry.
“She was saying goodbye to me and handing me to my (adoptive) mom,” Naomi says. “My (adoptive) mom was comforting her, knowing that this young girl had made the ultimate sacrifice to allow her to become a mother.”
Throughout her life, Naomi was always aware that she was adopted, with her family telling her how much her biological mother loved her.
In 2019, when she turned 18, she decided she wanted to know where she came from.
Six years later, on July 30, 2025, Naomi found a Facebook group titled, “Find a long lost friend or relative – Worldwide.”
Deciding that it may help her in her quest to find her blood relatives, Naomi posted the photo.
“Within 15 minutes of me posting it, my biological mom’s sister messaged me on Facebook,” says Naomi. “She’s like, ‘Hey, I know who your bio mom is! If you want to give me a call, here’s my number.'”
Naomi was skeptical at first, wondering if it was too good to be true and trying to protect herself from being scammed.
But the lead was legitimate and through a series of connections, she was able to contact her biological family.
That very night, Naomi couldn’t wait another second to meet her biological family, so she drove from Filer, Idaho, to Chubbuck, Idaho, and met with the family at McDonald’s.
“I was definitely nervous. I have hands-free in my car, so I called my (adoptive) mom. I was like six miles out,” Naomi recalls. “And I was like, ‘I’m six miles out. I have six miles to go. And I’m just now starting to feel extremely nervous about it.'”
As she pulled into the parking lot and rolled down her window, trying to figure out which group of people was her newfound family, Naomi heard her biological mom yell her name.
“I get out of my car, and she comes running up and gives me the biggest hug in the world,” Naomi says. “I held on, and I hugged her back, and I felt at peace. I felt this huge weight lift off my shoulders that I didn’t even know was there.”
Letting go from the hug, her biological mother pointed to look behind her, where she saw her biological father, waiting to give her a hug.
“I turned around and there was my dad just standing there, and I gave him a hug. He did not want to let me go at all,” Naomi says. “As he was hugging me, I went, ‘Huh, this hug feels very familiar.’ And my daughter, she’s 3, and she hugs the exact same way.”
After introductions, Naomi says she was told about a family tradition that she’d been a part of her whole life without even knowing it.
“They told me that every single year on my birthday, they’ve done like a little thing, and that they have 24 birthday cards for me,” Naomi says. “They’ve never forgotten my birthday.”
After talking until nearly midnight, Naomi says she drove home, feeling lighter.
“I remember the next morning when I got up, my husband’s like, ‘You are in a really good mood for getting very little sleep,’ because I have a 4-month-old that I’m nursing through the night,” Naomi says. “And I told him, like, ‘You know what? Today, the world seems brighter. And I feel physically lighter.’ I don’t know how to really describe it or explain it, but I just feel … I feel found.”
Read the rest of the incredible story from my colleague Kaitlyn Hart - Reporter. Link in the comments.
