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Parents. she had been adopted. the arrangement was mysterious. and now it was barbara's turn to tell a story. shirley had been her friend, she said. had told her about a woman working in the sex trade named geri smith who didn't want her babies. one day shirley showed up at barbara's house with a 3-month-old caldron da patricia smith. barbara could see it was iffy. but she wanted that baby so badly. so she ignored the red flags. >> nope. didn't care. didn't really care. >> she was going to see to it, she said, that rhonda was loved and cared for by the best parents she could ever possibly have...

A dna test? she said i'll take the dna test, but these are my children. i know it. >> allred put the dna test on a fast track and waited. within a week, called pepper and renee to her office to hear in person the results of the test. >> 99.99% probability. that means it's confirmed. >> that's it. i can't believe this is actually happening. i really can't right now. >> how soon could they meet geri the sisters. what's she like. how did she know shirley? we arranged a reunion for the next day. geri arrived first and told us how she saw her long lost girls on our program. >> i saw the picture of ...

That she was born to a prostitute drug addict named geri, that shirley saved her, raised her as a daughter. but kept renee in line by threatening to abandon her. >> did she ever threaten to do that? >> yeah. any time we did something wrong, she would say, well, you stop doing that or i'm going to send you off to geri's house. >> so they lived a life of packing up and fleeing one flop house to the next and skip out, hunger constant. medical care, nonexistent. when money ran out, as it often did, shirley drove to the nearest truck stop. the girls would bed down in the car and watch shirley sneak...

March 25th, 2011, no idea that something quite unbelievable would happen because one of the people who tuned in that night was a woman named geri, and oh, what a story she had to tell. coming up -- it was a story two sisters had waited a very long time to hear. >> 99.99% probability. that means it's confirmed. >> when "lost and found" continues. the wonderful thing about polident is the fact that

They were all, of course, 37 years older and in a way strangers now. but here they were. all the images she had clung to in fantasy, dreamed about for those 37 long years. >> and there you are in your bath. >> all those rolls, too. >> chubby little baby. >> and happy. >> and look at you just learning to walk. and smiling the whole way. you had a good life, honey. >> i know. >> so it was happy and sad, comforting, but also deeply strange because sitting on this couch, pepper heard some stunning revelations. such as -- these were not her birth parents. she had been adopted. and the arrangement w...