42 years ago, María Angélica González experienced one of her worst moments, when workers at a hospital in Chile took her newborn son from her arms. The nurse told him that she was going to take him to the incubator, since the baby was born earlier than expected. After taking it off, they told her that her son had died.
All this situation occurred during the Pinochet dictatorship, where thousands of babies were kidnapped and given up for adoption to foreign families. This was the situation experienced by Jimmy Lippert Thyden, who was illegally adopted in the United States and raised in the state of Virginia.
After having lived half his life in the belief that he had no living relatives where he was born, an article that spoke of adoptees who had been reunited with their blood relatives in Chile, put him on alert and he began to investigate his past.
The investigation led him to discover the whole truth and embark on the most important journey of his life to reunite with his biological mother. Jimmy Lippert Thyden headed to Valdivia, in the Los Ríos region, to meet with his family and be able to hug his mother for the first time.
Thanks to a video distributed by the Associated Press, we have been able to witness a very emotional reunion between mother and son. Jimmy Lippert Thyden appeared excited in the town with a bouquet of flowers, which he immediately delivered to María Angélica González, who could not contain her tears of emotion when she hugged her son for the first time after 42 years apart. ”Hi Mom. I love you very much,” the American lawyer told him.
In an interview with the aforementioned medium, Jimmy Lippert Thyden assured: “How do you hug someone in a way that can make up for 42 years of hugging?” “She said, son, you have no idea how much I have cried for you, how many nights have I stayed awake praying to God to let me live long enough to know what had happened to you,” he confessed.
