{"id":1162848,"date":"2021-12-27T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162848"},"modified":"2021-12-27T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:34:35","slug":"watch-adopted-woman-meets-biological-family-for-first-time-a-magical-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-adopted-woman-meets-biological-family-for-first-time-a-magical-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH &#8211; Adopted Woman Meets Biological Family for First Time: &#039;A Magical Moment&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-adopted-woman-meets-biological-family-for-first-time-a-magical-moment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1281847162-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A woman named Melissa Hall spent years searching for her biological relatives on her father\u2019s side and finally met them for the first time in Florida, Local 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/12\/26\/adopted-woman-meets-birth-family-for-first-time-in-south-florida\/\">reported<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hall knew her parents, who were in college in California during the 1960s, gave her up for adoption after her birth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">\u201cBecause she was Hispanic \u2014 white hispanic \u2014 she couldn\u2019t really have a brown baby,\u201d Hall explained, adding her adoptive parents were loving towards her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">However, she could not shake the feeling that something was missing in her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">She began her journey through Ancestry.com\u2019s DNA testing, and when she received the results, they connected her with Deboral Hallmon and Synita Seymour, two of her cousins, who did the same test.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">\u201cFamily was so important and I just knew it was always a lot of missing puzzles, and I just wanted to find them,\u201d Seymour recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">Hall messaged them and Hallmon was the first to answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">\u201cI just responded and she responded back and so it started from there,\u201d she explained, and Hall noted Hallmon began talking about her biological dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">\u201cI was like, \u2018This is matching up,&#8217;\u201d Hall told Local 10, adding, \u201cThis is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">Following a couple of years of calls and text messages between them, Hall knew it was time to meet her relatives and flew to South Florida for the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">The moment the door <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3LaStu6-LT0\">flew<\/a> open, everyone was overcome with joy as they embraced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">A photo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanMargolWPLG\/status\/1474944246012694534\">showed<\/a> the family smiling with their arms around each other:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After being adopted as a baby, Melissa Hall has spent years trying to meet her father\u2019s side of her biological family. Today, on Christmas, she got to finally see most of them for the very first time. I\u2019ve got their amazing story tonight on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPLGLocal10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WPLGLocal10<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lw5fgiPClP\">pic.twitter.com\/lw5fgiPClP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Margol (@IanMargolWPLG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanMargolWPLG\/status\/1474944246012694534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">\u201cIt was like \u2018oh my goodness this is like really happening,&#8217;\u201d Hall stated. \u201cI really see that there are people that share my blood out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">During the visit, she saw photos of her grandfather and her late father, whose name was Johnny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">Hall said she was sad he was not there to enjoy the reunion, but \u201cI know that he\u2019s looking down saying, \u2018I\u2019m glad you met my family.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 cynzxG\">According to the Adoption Network <a href=\"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/adoption-myths-facts\/domestic-us-statistics\/\">website<\/a>, approximately seven million American citizens are adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman named Melissa Hall spent years searching for her biological relatives on her father\u2019s side and finally met them for the first time in Florida, Local 10 reported Saturday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}