Dads are incredibly protective of their daughters, and will do anything to make sure nothing hurts them, so when this Oregon dad’s baby daughter suddenly disappeared from his life when her mother took her away, he searched everywhere for two years to get her back.
41-year-old Bryan Thouvenel first met his now estranged ex-girlfriend in 2010 at a karaoke bar, and the two eventually welcomed their daughter, Harmony Rain Thouvenel, into the world. But after two years together, Bryan’s ex-girlfriend took Harmony and headed north to Washington without ever speaking to him again or telling him where he was taking their daughter.
Bryan searched everywhere for his daughter, and despite being so close, he never heard anything about where Harmony was or if she was safe for two years. But while eating at a restaurant one day with his own mother, Cindy Lorenz, Bryan received a phone call from a friend who had seen Harmony in a Salvation Army homeless shelter in Spokane, Washington.
Lorenz ran to her car and immediately started driving her son to find his daughter. “She’s not in the best of health in the world, you know, but she drove for 10 hours straight until we got up there to the courthouse,” Bryan said.
After a warrant forced Harmony and her mother to appear in court, Bryan was finally given custody back and was free to take his daughter home.”I sat there and the next thing you know I’ve got my daughter coming out, walking by herself,” Bryan said. “She’s kind of looking around, and I said her name once. She kind of looked at me funny and I said ‘Harmony, it’s daddy.’ Her eyes just kind of lit up.”
“It made it all worth it, you know?” he said. “It was two years I fought through hell just to be a part of my daughter’s life and she was back in my life.”
Now, Washington nonprofit Time to Put Kids First is sending Bryan and Harmony on a trip to Hawaii to try and make up for all that lost time. “It would be this huge memory that she would actually remember. Regardless of whatever happens in the future, she will always have this one memory with dad,” Bryan said.
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