Tears streamed down Kaitlin Saar’s face as she stood in her Smithtown driveway on Wednesday afternoon before dashing onto her lawn and hugging her mother for the very first time.

Saar’s biological mother, María Paulina González Seguel, flew into Kennedy Airport from Chile on Wednesday morning following a decades-long effort to find the daughter who was taken from her at birth. While Saar knew she was adopted from a young age, she never knew she was one of thousands of Chilean babies taken from their mothers without their consent or knowledge and adopted by families from the United States and other countries. Until a few months ago, she never knew whether the woman who birthed her was even alive, let alone longing for their first embrace.

"I never thought this moment would come, never," G

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