Steve Harvey: Couple Reunites After 50 Years & Finds Baby They Gave Up for Adoption

Rarely do you come across a made-for-TV love story quite like Dennis and Karen’s.

The teens met and fell madly in love in high school back in the 1950s, but their Nicholas Sparks ending wouldn’t come full circle for more than five decades.

When Karen became pregnant, her parents banned her from seeing Dennis and decided that adoption would be the best option for all involved. Smitten with his girlfriend, Dennis tried to propose in an attempt to save the relationship and grow their new family together, but he was met with a firm “no” by all the adults in their lives.

Shortly after their baby girl Jean was put up for adoption, Dennis joined the army and Karen went off to college.

Though they missed each other dearly, they wouldn’t speak again for over fifty years.

But not a day went by that Dennis didn’t think about Karen and the beautiful life they could’ve shared together.

Then, on October 25, 2014, one of Dennis’ friends asked him to join LinkedIn. In the process, he couldn’t help but do a quick search for his long-lost sweetheart. Earlier attempts to find her had failed, but there was still a glimmer of hope in the old man’s heart that it was not too late.

Lo and behold, he was right.

He searched “Karen Lehmann,” and in an uncanny stroke of fate, she turned out to be the third person on the list.