“I’ve got 34 years to catch up on,” the veteran said. Author: Mitch Carr (12News) Updated: 7:50 AM CDT May 31, 2021
MESA, Ariz. Mesa resident Tom Chaney was a Marine stationed in Alaska in the mid-1980s. He had a brief relationship with a woman before being moved on to Hawaii.
The result of that relationship hugged him in the middle of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport 34 years later.
Both of them hardly able to speak, and hardly needed to do so.
That is the beginning and end of the story, but most of the middle of the story centers on Stephanie McKenna, who was put up for adoption by her birth mother.