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Eighty years ago a teenage girl gave birth to a baby and gave it up for adoption. But several decades later Betty Morrell finally met her 96-yer-old birth mother thanks to the persistence of her great granddaughter, who searched for her great grandmother for 20 years.

Besides, she got to know her sister she never knew.

"After my adoptive parents died, that's when I started looking. Being that it was a closed adoption, it's like hitting a brick wall because you can't get any information," Betty Morrell said, Americaru reports.  

The girl was born in 1933 in New York to Lena Pierce who named her Eva May.

Social welfare officials took the baby away from Pierce, 13, who was herself a ward of the state. Eva was adopted and changed her name as Betty Morrell, being the only child in the family.

 "I grew up a very happy child," Morrell said.

At the age of 30, Betty began looking for information about her family, but she was told her biological mother died during childbirth, and she was shocked to eventually find out her mother was still alive.

Morrell's granddaughter joined the search when she was 12.

"My grandmother had been looking for a long time. She had never tried through the Internet," she noted. 

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