Mother meets with biological daughter 77 years later

During the greater part of their 100-year-old Minka Disbrow tried to find out what happened with your precious baby she gave up for adoption after having been raped as a teenager.

The cruel act of violence gave birth in Disbrow a lasting love for the girl. She stayed with a photograph in black and white of the baby wrapped in bedsheets and lying within a basket. Fu the last time he saw the girl until the phone rang in his California apartment in 2006 with the voice of a man from Alabama and a story that she had only dreamed of.

In the middle of that year, their dream became reality.

The daughter biological Disbrow, Ruth Lee, then 77 years, tracked it to know more of the history of his family after suffering from problems heart.

Sorprendida find it after so many years, Lee and his son Brian Lee traveled to Southern California to see Disbrow. The families have been in contact u000aSince then

Disbrow said that it was as if never had separated.

In a 1928 summer day while was picnic with other girls of her class of Couture, Disbrow and her friend Elizabeth were attacked by three men when they went for a walk. Both were raped.

"We didn't know what to do." We didn't know what to say. "So we came back, nothing is said", recalled Disbrow.

The months passed. His body began to experience change.

Disbrow, who believed that the babies were brought by the Stork, didn't know what was happening.

His mother and stepfather sent a Lutheran home for pregnant minors. 17-Year-old gave birth to a blonde baby with a pronounced dimple in his Chin named Betty Jane.

In his heart, Disbrow wanted to keep her. But his head and his mother were still telling you could not carry a baby to the farm

Then, the man asked him if he wanted to talk to Betty u000aJane.

Its name was now Ruth Lee. It had been raised by a Norwegian pastor and his wife and later married and had six children, among them the man in Alabama - the teacher and astronaut Mark Lee, veteran of four space flights that has given around the world 517 times. Ruth Lee worked at Walmart for almost 20 years - and particularly enjoyed their responsibility in the area of gardening.

Throughout his life, Lee knew that it was adopted, and grew up to be a girl happy.

It was not until he had served more than 70 years when he began to find his parents biological.

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