told Boston.com. “It was a really good way to break the ice.”His biological father didn’t get the joke because he hadn’t seen the movie, which is about a man raised at the North Pole who meets his dad for the first time.
But that didn’t stop him from giving his son a big hug.Henning said he was raised by “amazing” adoptive parents but he was excited when cousins he met through ancestry.com helped to put him in touch with his biological father.
Just like the movie, the father didn’t know about his son.The two met on Zoom and Henning’s dad was able to fly to Boston for Thanksgiving.Henning said he was inspired to dress as the character from “Elf” after watching the movie before the meetup.
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