Widowed Mother Reunites With Son 25 Years After He Was Kidnapped

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By Frank Fang | March 6, 2016. Even as a child Song Yangzhi somehow felt that he was adopted, even though his parents never told him directly. When he was little, he could recite two poems that his parents never taught him, and other kids called him “orphan boy.” It turns out that Song’s instincts were right: he was kidnapped …

Adoptees have homes; their files can’t find one

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SYRACUSE, NY – Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm’s office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years – their medical histories, their adoptive parents’ finances, and in …

PART III: SEARCH FOR THEIR MOTHER

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48 Hours brought the girls and their mothers to Guadalajara, where local guides, with the help of information from the adoption papers, took them back to the last known address of their birth mother – a woman named Norma De La Cruz. But no one in this working class neighborhood could tell the girls where to find Norma, so 48 …

PART II: THE TWINS REUNION

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They decided to meet at a neutral spot, a McDonalds parking lot. Tamara brought her ex-boyfriend and her best friend for emotional support. “I see this girl with a big, black bubble jacket with dark long hair, and I’m like, ‘That’s Tamara.’ And I couldn’t look,” says Adriana. “We both wore bubble jackets, jeans. Mine was purple, hers was black.” …

Mexico: Twins Who Were Separated At Birth Meet Up After 20 Years

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Adriana Scott was adopted from Mexico when she was just weeks old. While growing up on Long Island, N.Y., she noticed that she looked nothing like her cousins. She had no idea why she excelled at certain things. “I’m very into music and into dancing,” she says. “My family’s not like that, really.” And she always believed her quirks were …