Typo, MySpace lead to mom-son reunion

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A Utah woman said she was able to reconnect with the son she gave up 32 years ago thanks to a typo and an Internet search.

Terri Fuller said her then-2-year-old son was adopted 32 years ago by a childless California couple acquainted with her aunt after she made the decision to give him up, KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, reported Tuesday.

Fuller said she began trying to reconnect with her son years later, but was unable to locate him. She said she eventually created a MySpace profile explaining her desire to find her long-lost child, but she mistakenly misspelled his new last name, Hawver, as "Haver."

However, Rustin Hawver said he chanced upon his biological mother's MySpace page while he was searching for his blog and accidentally left out the "w" in his last name.

"She had my name misspelled. If it wasn't for Google or that keyboard being messed up, I would have never have found that," Hawver said.

Mother and son said they are delighted at having reconnected and are currently planning to meet in March for the first time in decades.