It was the reunion of a lifetime. After five decades of fruitless searching, Betty Morrell, 82, was reunited with her 96-year-old birthmother, Lena Pierce, for the first time since she was born. "She cried and hugged me and said, 'It's been so long, it's been so long,' " Morrell says of the emotional get-together that took place in Binghamton Airport in New York on January 15. Morrell, of Spring Hill, Florida, had been desperately trying to locate her mother ever since her loving, adoptive parents died in 1954 - but she always came up short. "I hired private detectives, called adoption agencies and...
- 2/4/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
It was the reunion of a lifetime. After five decades of fruitless searching, Betty Morrell, 82, was reunited with her 96-year-old birthmother, Lena Pierce, for the first time since she was born. "She cried and hugged me and said, 'It's been so long, it's been so long,' " Morrell says of the emotional get-together that took place in Binghamton Airport in New York on January 15. Morrell, of Spring Hill, Florida, had been desperately trying to locate her mother ever since her loving, adoptive parents died in 1954 - but she always came up short. "I hired private detectives, called adoption agencies and...
- 2/4/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
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