An elderly woman with no family thought was all alone in the world until she was reunited with the daughter she was told died after birth. Genevieve Purinton, 88, thought she had no family left and lives a quiet life in a living center in North Tampa.
Her sisters and brothers have died and she had no other children after she went through heartbreak in 1949 when she gave birth to a baby and was told the child had died.
But it turns out the child, born in Gary, Indiana, was very much alive and was given up for adoption and raised in South California.
Connie Moultroup, now 69, spent her whole life searching for her birth mother. “It’s been a lifetime of wanting this. I remember being five years old, wishing I could find my mother,” Moultroup, who lives in Vermont, said. Moultroup’s adoptive mother passed away when she was just five and her stepmother was abusive, giving her a rough childhood.
“She would fantasize about her mother rescuing her since she was five years old. It’s truly her life-long dream,” Moultroup’s daughter Bonnie Chase said. Moultroup was able to trace her mother after Chase bought her a DNA kit last Christmas. “It was just a cool Christmas present and it has completely changed our lives,” Chase said. It connected her to a cousin. When they finally met via phone, Moultroup gave her birth mother’s name and the relative replied “Oh, that’s my aunt...and she’s still alive”.
Those words changed Moultroup’s life and after 69 years of wondering, she was finally able to meet her mother on Monday December 3. The mother and daughter met in an emotional and tearful reunion at the Haley Park Apartments retirement community in Tampa, Florida.
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