It was truly a Christmas miracle when an 88-year-old woman of Tampa, Florida, reunited with her long-lost daughter, whom she thought had died at birth in 1949, nearly seven decades later in December 2018.
Genevieve Purinton was an 18-year-old unwed mother as she endured the agony of labor, giving birth to a baby girl alone at a hospital in Gary, Indiana, on May 12, 1949, The New York Times reported.
