Every so often you come across a story which restores your faith in humanity, in the goodness of people and the power of small acts of kindness. This is that story.

We all know how tough life can be, and when life turns upside down, who do we turn to? Well, our friends and family of course! But for a moment, imagine having no one to turn to, imagine being so utterly alone in the world that you are forced to resign to a life of dismal poverty and loneliness. That was the life of Mick Myers, who was homeless and lived on the streets for three decades until a police officer with a heart of gold came along and changed both their lives forever.

The story of Mick Myers began when he was adopted, by a decent family in California. He was adopted as a baby and was raised by a family who treated him well enough, but he never connected well with his adoptive siblings. He had friends but soon lost touch with them after school ended. The only person he truly connected with was his adoptive mother, who was said to have been very warm and affectionate towards her adopted son. After the death of his adoptive parents, Mick also lost his only connection to his adoptive siblings. They turned their backs on him, leaving him utterly alone in the world.

With nowhere to go and no place to call home, Mick took a job as a truck driver. The isolation of the job suited him; he was an introvert after all. Eventually, though he lost his job, and with it his desperation at the hand he had been dealt in life grew worse. With no job and no friends or family to turn to, Myers had to come to terms with living the remainder of his life as a homeless man. He spent thirty years on the streets of San Leandro, California. He had a guitar which he would play from time to time to collect enough money for a hot meal. This became his life, and he had all but resigned to this being his life until the day he died, but fate still had one more hand to deal, and that hand was dealt in the form of a policeman- Deputy Sheriff Jacob Swalwell.
Deputy Sheriff Jacob Swalwell of Alameda County had seen Mick around during his patrols. He had warned Mick Myers against bothering passersby for money, but when he saw that Myers was not stopping even after repeated warnings, he decided to take more severe action. It was when he asked for his ID that the deputy sheriff came to know that this homeless man hadn’t had a place to call home in thirty years, and he wasn’t able to collect social security because he had never even had an ID. When the deputy conversed with Mick further, he was surprised to find out that this man who he had been admonishing was not an addict or criminal, but a desperate victim of circumstance. Here was a man who had been disabled and homeless for a full three decades, without any means of getting out of his current situation and no one even offering any real help. The deputy knew he had to do something.

The deputy sheriff decided that the first step in getting Mick off the streets was getting him an ID. The deputy didn’t realize it at the time, but he was about to start a chain of events that would alter the course of Mick Myer’s life in ways neither of them imagined possible. Getting an ID made soon proved to be quite a task, as Mick’s original birth certificate was required. The possibility of tracking down the birth certificate of an adopted baby seemed slim to Myers, but Deputy Sheriff Swalwell was determined to turn things around for Mick. While Mick remained certain that his life would not be changing for the better any time soon, the deputy remained steadfast in his mission to track down this seemingly impossible birth certificate. It took some time and effort, but the deputy was finally able to get his hands on the long lost birth certificate, which revealed yet another truth about our man of the hour. Mick Myers came to know that the name that had been given to him by his birth parents was Gordon Michael Oakley.

Due to the efforts of the officer, Mick Myers- or should we say Gordon- was finally issued an ID! As more and more people heard of this story, it soon caught the ears of a local news network. Inspired by this act of kindness and moved by the story of a homeless man, the new station aired a story to spread the heart-warming tale. You’d think that this heart-swelling tale would end here but no! The best was yet to come. The next catalyst in this true and one of a kind story would be another kind soul who happened to be watching the story being told on the local news. This individual was a private investigator named Mark Askins.

Mark Askins was an investigator who worked for Miracle Messages, a non-profit organization that aims at reuniting homeless persons with their relatives. Askins expressed great interest in taking on Myer’s case. After receiving the go-ahead from Mick to investigate his past, Askins set out to change the lives of an unsuspecting family forever. From his investigative research, Askins was able to uncover the names of Myer’s birth parents. Their names were Wiley Albert Oakley and Maria Pauline Oakley. An investigator through and through, Askins didn’t stop there. He kept searching for more clues about the Oakley’s and the events leading to Mick Myer’s unexplained adoption.

Askins discovered that married life for Marie Pauline Oakley got off to a shaky start. She was married and pregnant at the age of sixteen, to a young sailor named Wiley Oakley. The couple was desperately poor, living in a cabin with holes in the walls big enough for snakes to crawl through. Marie claimed that her husband’s earnings went straight to his own mother, who would only give them enough money for baby formula. There wasn’t even a proper crib for her baby to sleep in. The small family lived in a state of starvation and deprivation. Marie soon realized she could not continue to expose her baby to such poor conditions and decided to move back home and live with her mother, all while pregnant with her second child. After her marriage to her neglectful husband was annulled, she soon gave birth to a child she named Gordon, who would grow up to be called Mick. The newly single mother faced many challenges, but it was when Gordon tuned two that she experienced the biggest challenge of all. Gordon was diagnosed with a hole in his stomach. Marie was told that the hole would prove to be life-threatening if not surgically treated. Marie was devastated. She knew she would never be able to afford the medical care her child needed and was forced by fate’s cruel hand to do the only thing she could do to save her child; she gave him up. Her baby was adopted by a family who would be able to afford his medical care. She often wondered what life had done with her baby boy, but she never expected that sixty-five years later fate would give her an answer.

Mark Askins soon discovered that Marie was not only alive, but she had changed her name to Polly and lived nearby in Humboldt County. He then unveiled all that he had learned to a shocked mother and son, who were eager to meet each other. Mick Myers was accompanied by both Deputy Sheriff Swalwell and Mark Askins on his first ever plane ride, to Humboldt County. Upon his arrival, Myers soon discovered that he was not just meeting his birth mother Polly, but a whole family! His mother wrapped her arms around him the second he came through the door, exuding a love that Myers had never experienced before. He was overwhelmed to discover he not only had a mother but a sibling and niece as well! A man who had known nothing but isolation and deprivation his whole life was now being surrounded by a family who welcomed him with open arms and open hearts.

All of this was possible only because of the kindness of one man, Deputy Sheriff Swalwell. One man’s actions were enough to take a homeless man off the street and give him a new life and loving family. People don’t devote themselves to helping their fellow man like this anymore, and the officer going above and beyond the call of duty is just a reminder that there are still some remarkable and kind human beings in the chaos of the world today, and just that knowledge is enough to make our hearts swell! For more information of Current Celebrity News Stories and Latest Hot News visit here : https://www.realpostmag.com/