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A 42-year-old Virginia man hugged his biological mother for the first time this month after they broke up at birth and haven't seen each other since. When they met for the first time at Maria Angelica Gonzalez's home Valdivia, Chile in August, Jimmy Lippert Thyden called Maria Angelica Gonzalez "Hello, mom" Spanish. "I love you so much," she said, both teary-eyed and emotional as they embraced. 42 years ago, hospital staff picked up Maria Angelica Gonzalez's son right after he was born, and was later told that her son had . Now they have to meet face to face. Thyden said of his birth mother, "Mijo , you have no idea how many nights I've cried oceans for you, lay awake praying for God let me live long enough to know what happened you." their extraordinary meeting. ADOPTION OF MICHAEL OHER FACES REJECTION BY TUOHY FAMILY MEMBERS The heartwarming moment came after months of international searching to find his biological family, and the 42-year-old man told the Associated Press how he approached their first date. "This struck me a lot. ... I was overwhelmed by the seriousness of this moment," he said in an interview in Ashburn, Virginia, where he worked as a criminal defense attorney. "How do you hug someone as compensation for hugging someone for 42 years?" This meeting involved much more than Thyden, who traveled to Chile to meet his newfound family with his wife Johannah and two daughters Ebba Joy and Betty Grace . Gonzalez meets for the first time his displaced son, new bride and two new grandchildren. Thyden also met his biological problems and his sister for the first time. Everyone was enthusiastic. FORMER NFL PLAYER MICHAEL OHER, INSPIRED BY 'THE BLIND SIDE', Says He Has Never Been Adopted BY FAMILY When Thyden and family entered his mother's home, they were greeted with 42 colored balloons, each symbolizing a year spent with Chilean family. "There's a power in popping these balloons, there's a power in taking inventory of everything that's been there with your family and is lost," he said. "The paperwork I have for my adoption states that I don't have any living relatives. I've also learned over the past few months that I have a mother, four brothers, and a sister." Thyden's journey to find his mother and his birth family began in April when he encountered news that Chilean-born adoptees were reunited with their natural relatives. He then decided to take a DNA test from the MyHeritage genealogy platform that confirmed he was 100% Chilean. The test also paired him with his first cousin using the platform. Thyden sent her cousin option papers with her biological mother's address and Maria Angelica Gonzalez, a very common name in Chile. The cousin had Maria Angelica Gonzalez on her maternal side, which eventually helped him connect with the woman identified as his mother. THE FAMILY CLAIMING THAT ADULTS STARTED "HELLINING" AT 6 YEARS OLD, FACED WITH QUESTIONS LAWYER But Gonzalez doesn't answer phone calls as adoption stories like this are sometimes abused for financial gain. Until she texted him a photo of his wife and daughters. "Then the dam broke," said Thyden, who posted more photos of adoptive American family, time in the U.S. Marine Corps, wedding, and other moments in life. "I was trying to separate the 42 years of life taken from him. It was taken from both of us," he said. Chilean nonprofit Nos Buscamos also helped and found that Thyden was born prematurely at a hospital in Chile's capital, Santiago. According to Thyden, she was taken from Gonzalez's custody and placed in an incubator. He was then instructed to leave the hospital. When returned to pick up her baby, she was told that had and that her body had been disposed of. He was case of "false adoption," a child trafficking scheme that overlapped with many other human rights violations that occurred during the 17-year reign of General Augusto Pinochet, who led coup d'etat to overthrow Marxist President Salvador Allende in Chile. 1970s. Nos Buscamos estimates that tens of thousands of babies were taken from Chilean families in the 1970s and 1980s. "The real story was that these children were stolen from poor families, from poor women who knew nothing. They didn't know how to defend themselves," said Constanza del Rio and Nos Buscamos, founders and directors. During the dictatorship, at least 3,095 people were killed, according to government figures, and tens of thousands were tortured or imprisoned for political reasons. For two years, Nos Buscamos has partnered with genealogy platform MyHeritage, which provides free home DNA testing kits for distribution to Chilean adoptees and suspected Chilean child trafficking victims. Although Thyden is successfully reunited with his natural family, he realizes that reunion may not go so well for other adopters. "It
