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"I guess I gave up, I mean after 51 years you don't ever expect to see a child again," said Alta Apantenco, Melissa's mother.

Jeffrie Highsmith and Apantenco re-met their daughter Saturday in an emotional reunion at a lab in Fort Worth. Read more at Boston.com.

A Fort Worth woman learned she was “Baby Melissa,” the focus of a decades-long search. “I finally have a mother and a father that want me,” she said.

She was found "purely because of DNA, not because of any police / FBI involvement ... or even our familys own private investigations," her family said.

Melissa Highsmith, who family say was abducted in Fort Worth in 1971, located in South Carolina, more than 1,000 miles away

A woman who disappeared 51 years ago as a baby was reunited with her parents in Fort Worth this weekend.

A woman who disappeared over five decades ago was found in Fort Worth this week, her family announced Sunday.

Melissa Highsmith was reported missing in 1971, after the 21-month-old was never returned by a babysitter, her family said.

Melissa Highsmith was raised just minutes from where she was abducted from her mother's Fort Worth, Texas, apartment on Aug. 23, 1971, when she was just 21 months old.

Melissa Highsmith was raised just minutes from where she was abducted from her mother's Fort Worth, Texas, apartment on Aug. 23, 1971, when she was just 21 months old.