They never lost each other again.
In 2015, both brothers were 75. Jim Lewis lived in Elida, Ohio, and Jim Springer in Dayton. They had stayed in touch.
Decades earlier, Lucille Lewis had worried about the other little boy. She wondered whether he had a home, and whether he was all right.
He had been in Ohio the whole time, living a life almost exactly like her son's.
After that February day in 1979, the two brothers finally got to live part of it together.
