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Sunday, November 17
The Christmas miracle is fulfilled: an adopted woman meets for the first time with her biological family in Miami
Melissa Hall had been searching for her paternal biological family for many years. For decades used all possible mechanisms but it had not been possible . However, this Christmas weekend the miracle was fulfilled: she was able to meet them for the first time.
The woman always knew that her parents, that were college students in California in the sixties, they had given her up for adoption days after her birth.
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“My parents were Hispanic, white people, and they couldn’t have an African-American baby like me ”, the woman told local media . Hall assures that her family adopted was always very attentive and affectionate with her, but the woman felt that a connection was missing that she had to close.
Thanks to Ancestry.com, a DNA trace search platform, he was able to get himself a genetic test and shared it with Deboral Hallmon and Synita Seymour , his cousins, who had also had the same DNA test done.
“I knew there were a lot of missing puzzles, and I just wanted to find them ,” Seymour said.
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Hall contacted his cousins through the portal and Deboral was the one who answered first and started talking about her biological father . After more than two years of texting and calling, Hall plucked up his courage and took a plane to South Florida to join his family for Christmas.
There were many hugs and tears of happiness. But unfortunately the woman could not be reunited with her grandfather Daniel and her father Johnny since they are both dead.
“It saddens me that you are not here to share this moment with us . I know you’re looking down and saying, ‘I’m glad you met my family,’ ”she said.