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Chinese adoptee finds birthparents
From the Beijing Review:
As an adopted child, Haley had always wondered about her past and her biological family and who had brought her into this world.
Haley’s American parents have been supportive in her wishes of finding her biological parents and those thoughts soon turned into action.
She returned to China for a 15th time in July 2009—this time to search for her parents.
“The local police were extremely generous in their help,” Haley said. They looked through all the documents about abandoned babies and suggested a place to put up a poster.
In just two minutes, Haley had a response. A woman working in the restaurant where the poster was put up said Haley looked like the daughter of her cousin, who had sent a baby girl to others 14 years previously. In a few hours, the woman’s cousin showed up, a 50-something man who came with his first daughter all the way from Chaohu to Maanshan to meet Haley.
After she returned to the United States, Haley’s family had her hair tested for matching DNA. It turned out the man’s DNA showed an almost 100 percent match.
Haley and her adoptive parents had always thought the odds of finding the biological parents were slim to none, and never thought it would be so easy.
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