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own mother. >> i asked her, is there anything you need to tell me? it was confirmed that she knew that i was baby melissa. that just made it real. since the highsmith families reunion over thanksgiving, melissa has started reconnecting with her parents over old baby photos. >> it's good to see what i looked like when i was a baby. >> and this meeting three sisters and a brother she never knew she had. >> welcome back. welcome to the family. >> my heart right now is just full and thirst-ing with so much emotion. >> it's unimaginable emotion. in an instant, melissa highsmith world change. she had no idea her family had spent decades looking for her. >> it's overwhelming but at the same time it's just the most

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call the barnes firm aand find out what your case all ccould be worth.uld've made. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ tonight a family is reunited after more than five decades apart. melissa hyde-smith was just a baby when she was kidnapped in 1971 and now thanks to a dna testing kit, she's found the family she did not know she lost. cnn's ed lavandera has her story. >> moments before melissa high smith reignited with her parents, you could see the emotional excitement overwhelming her. her mother and father waited 51 years for this embrace. >> i just couldn't believe it. i thought i would never see her again. >> i said, dad, she's alive. i started crying.

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after 51 years, it's so emotional. >> back in the early 1970s, melissa was 22 months old. her parents were separated at the time. her mother put an ad in the newspaper looking for a babysitter to care for melissa so she could work. her roommate at the time handed off melissa to the babysitter on the morning of august 23rd 1971. the woman and melissa never returned. melissa's disappearance made headlines in her hometown of fort worth, texas. she wrote an open letter asking the kidnapper to call her. i'm begging you again for the return of my little girl. i've been going out of my mind with worry. the call never came. but dna testing the, decades later. melissa's family submitted their dna to 23 and me and got the results a few weeks ago, with the match to one of melissa's own children. that now 53 year old confronted that woman she spent nearly her whole life believing was her

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