i cannot wait until i get that call. >> reporter: amanda holdingness' life is about to change. on the other end of that call -- >> hey, there. >> hey, how are you? >> reporter: someone with an answer to a question she's been asking her whole life. >> are you ready? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: who is her father? ♪ happy birthday >> reporter: we started following her quest to find him two years ago. a doting mother herself with her own son making his birthday wishes. moments that hearken back to her own childhood of birthday wishes. wishes that have always been the same. to find her dad. >> i wanted to have a father that i would be the apple of his eye. you know, i wanted to be that daddy's girl. >> reporter: her mother had given her a name for the man she believed was amanda's father. but other details were scarce. >> she described him having dark brown hair and i was thinking about elvis. >> reporter: and amanda says she described a man who wasn't thrilled to learn at the time that he was going to be a father. so amanda's single mother moved back home to mississippi to raise am