Mother reunites with daughter she thought had died 69 years earlier

The tears flowed in Florida when an 88-year-old mother reunited with the daughter she thought had died 69 years earlier.

Genevieve Purinton was 18 when she gave birth to Connie Moultroup in Indiana.
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She asked to see the baby, but was told the newborn had died.

Purinton did not argue or ask for a death certificate, blaming her youth for the mistake.

But the truth was Moultroup had been covertly adopted by a family in Southern California.

Last Christmas, Connie received an Ancestry DNA kit, which helped her track down a cousin, and then her biological mother.



"In a lifetime of wanting this. I remember being five-years-old and wishing I could find my mother," Moultroup says.
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But, with the discovery of a daughter, Purinton also learned that she has a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

Moultroup also learned that she has two half-sisters from her biological father, whom she plans to meet.

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