Via Fox 2 News:
Forty-nine years ago, a woman was told her daughter had died just after hours after being born. But on Thursday, the mother and daughter were reunited — and both very much alive.
Zella Jackson Price, 76, met her daughter, Melanie Diane Gilmore, in person for the first time at Price’s home in Olivette.
“There’s nothing greater. There’s nothing greater than this. Nothing,” Price said.
Melanie arrived with her own daughter and son at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport from Oregon. That’s also where Melanie met her brother, Harvey, for the first time.
Their story begins at the old Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis. Shortly after delivering her baby, Zella Price was told the infant died. But Melanie was alive and for some unknown reason, she adopted by another family.
Zella Price said she is hurt by the years of separation, but is thankful for this second chance.
“(God) has given me everything the devil has taken from me,” Price said. “I’m getting it back. I’m getting my baby back.”
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That hospital has some SERIOUS explaining to do. Glad the mother and daughter could be reunited and can make up for time lost.