Rose Marie Hinckley only found out recently that she was a grandmother. She learned this from her grandkids' dad -- her son, Ron -- who was very much alive, after each had spent almost half a century thinking the other was dead. Forty years ago, Hinckley's former husband (and Ron's father) Carl had told his son that his mother was killed by a drunk driver, while Rose had been told that her son was also killed in a car accident.

But after Ron spent five years searching for his mother's grave, his wife, April, came across one of Rose's distant cousins on a genealogy website. April learned that Rose was alive and well, and after decades of believing the other was gone forever, Rose and her son, Ron, are back together.

See? At least the Internet is good for something.

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