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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:10 PM Feb 2016

Mother and daughter reunite after 82 years

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Tales-from-the-Tiers-Mother-daughter-reunite-after-82-years--367260621.html

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Town of Maine, NY (WBNG Binghamton) It had been 82 years since Lena Pierce had seen her first-born child—but Friday, Jan. 15 offered a reunion for the pair.

At the age of 14-- on Feb.11, 1933-- Pierce gave birth to a little girl in a Utica hospital. She named her Eva May, and cared for her for six months.

“She bathed her, and changed her diapers, and came to love her,” Millie Hawk, one of PIerce’s daughters, said.

After six months together, the state of New York took Eva from Pierce—citing she was unfit for motherhood at such a young age.

“There was a lot of times I worried about her and wondered where she was,” Pierce said.
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Mother and daughter reunite after 82 years (Original Post) LiberalElite Feb 2016 OP
Similar happened to my dad metroins Feb 2016 #1
She was very lucky to get her birth certificate Mike__M Feb 2016 #2

metroins

(2,550 posts)
1. Similar happened to my dad
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:26 PM
Feb 2016

With my half sister.

It didn't work out for them as well, her mom spread a lot of lies about my dad which made it difficult to overcome.

I am happy to hear that they are working out in the OP.

Mike__M

(1,052 posts)
2. She was very lucky to get her birth certificate
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:29 PM
Feb 2016

Most states hold them so tight that they wouldn't let the Secretary of State keep them on their server.
I know I am a second-class citizen.

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