Before she met Gordon, Carolyn used to be extremely poor - even poorer than Martin is now. She got pregnant with a man who left her right after finding out about the baby, and while she didn't want an abortion, she couldn't afford to raise a baby either, so she left her newborn son at the hospital. She thought about her firstborn many times over the years, but there was no way Gordon would consider raising someone else's child, so she didn't make any attempts to find the family that adopted him.

32 years later, a young pilot who bears a striking resemblance to her ex-boyfriend comes looking for a job, and it turns out that he was born on the same day as her son....