Lost 45 years ago, a woman flew to South Korea to meet with her family her biological family in South Korea 45 years after her relatives lost her, reports WCAX.
All her life, the 47-year-old woman was convinced that she was abandoned as a child. However, it turned out that she was lost in a busy street market, and since her disappearance, the biological family has not given up trying to find her. As a little girl, she ended up in an orphanage, after which she was adopted by a family from the United States.
While visiting South Korea in 2016, she passed a DNA test, thanks to which a year ago she was able to re-establish contact with her biological family: a woman held a video conference with relatives, including a mother, a twin sister and an older brother. On September 17 this year, she flew to their country to meet in person with her family.
During their 12-day visit, the reunited family visited the market where McCarthy had once got lost. She also met her aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews, as well as relatives of the spouses.
“It was really symbolic when we held hands with my twin sister and my mother, because , again, this is where we got lost, and I felt that it gave my mother some peace of mind, “the woman said.
Earlier it became known that the hero of the British show Long Lost Family (analogue of the Russian” Wait for me ») Leon Parton found his lost family 40 years after he was adopted by his foster parents. An old newspaper helped the man to find the brothers and sisters. When he was 11 years old, his adoptive mother showed him a newspaper clipping that she had kept since Parton's infancy. Thanks to her, the program editors managed to find Parton's relatives.