More than four decades ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez’s baby, Jimmy Lippert Thyden, and later told her he had died.
Thyden says he was a case of “counterfeit adoption”.
He began his journey to find his birth family in April, after reading news stories about Chilean-born adoptees who had been reunited with their relatives with the help of non-profit Nos Buscamos.
“Hola, Mama,” Thyden says, meeting his mother face-to-face at her home in Valdivia, Chile, for the first time.
“I love you very much,” he added, as they embraced amid tears.
