DNTO: Reuniting loved ones, friends... and strangers

Lori Campbell knows what it's like to yearn for a reunion - she spent more than 20 years searching for the pieces of her broken Metis family. She shares what it's like find out the truth about the mother and siblings you never knew you had.

If you've ever left your phone or wallet in a cab then you know what an inconvenience it can be. When Joshua Levy left his smartphone in a Toronto taxi and the company told him they wouldn't be able to help him for three days, he decided he couldn't wait. So, he Macgyvered a tracking device and set out on a good old fashioned car chase!

Lorie and Terry Traviss decided to make the trek to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee with their dog Dixie. But when they turned onto Elvis Presley Blvd and decided to stop for quick bite to eat, they discovered Dixie was missing. They put all of Memphis on high alert to try and get her back.

Rose Simpson had a very close friend she went dancing with - they even met Marvin Gaye together. But the relationship fell apart after the apparent theft of a small, household appliance.  

When writer Allen Kurzweil was 10 years old, he went to a boarding school in Switzerland. But what was supposed to be a great school year was ruined by boy who bullied him mercilessly. Allen never forgot that boy and when he started searching for him as an adult, Allen couldn't believe what he found. He  has just published his memoir called Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully. 

90-year-old Virginia Schramek lives in Sarnia, Ontario. It's where she first laid eyes on Edward when she was 15. He went off to war and she figured she'd never see him again. She may never have reunited with him if she hadn't looked up one day from her job at a discharge office for soldiers.

Michel, Fabian and Alliston Lwamba grew up in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1990, Michel and Fabian were students at the university and they took part in protests against the government. One day the army started shooting and the protest turned into a student massacre. Michel escaped and made it to a refugee camp in Kenya with his youngest brother, Alliston. But Fabian wasn't with them.

Once estranged, Jessica and Derek Reid now reunite other parents and kids. The founders of F.E.A.T. for children of incarcerated parents are passionate about the work they do. And for good reason.

Sometimes the most powerful reunion can be with someone you've never met. That was certainly the case for Joe Schlesinger who recalls meeting the stranger who saved his life. 

Susan Roman spent 40 years looking for her birth mother. But when she finally found her, her mother had late-stage Alzheimer's and was practically non-verbal. Despite not getting the reunion she was hoping for, Susan felt she got so much more.
 

This Week's Playlist
​Paul Simon - "Mother and Child Reunion"
Sleater Kinney - "No Cities to Love"
Elvis Presley - "Hound Dog"
Samantha Savage Smith - "Fine Lines"
Scott Helman - "Bungalow"
Aqua Alta - "Epic Sweep"