MOORE -- First, understand that Steve Sorrells loves to hunt.

An avid outdoorsman, Sorrells, his wife Maylene says, lives for those months between September and March.

"He loves deer season, or squirrel hunting, or dove hunting, or whatever hunting season it is," she said. "He just loves to hunt."

Given the chance, Steve would spend most of his time, shotgun in hand, somewhere in the woods.

You should also know that Steve, a plumber, and Maylene, a stay-at-home mom, have redefined the term large family. Between the two of them, when they got married, they had six children.

A short time later, they adopted four more -- Maylene's nieces who had been abandoned by their mother. And, by the time the paperwork was completed, the Sorrells became a family of 12 -- two adults and 10 children.

But there was another.

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Far from Oklahoma, in North Carolina, lived a frightened, lonely 15-year-old girl.

Lacey had never really known her father; she'd only seen him as a toddler.

Her life wasn't easy. First she lived with her mother, then her aunt, and she was placed in foster care.

She was, she said, alone and by herself.

A young girl who thought she'd been forgotten.

A young girl who dreamed of a father she'd never seen, and a family she'd never had.

But Steve Sorrells hadn't forgotten about Lacey.