After 77 Years, Mother-Daughter Reunion Proves it's Never too Late

It's never too late to reunite with family.

That's the message of the AP story about a 100-year-old San Clemente woman who was reunited in recent years with her 77-year-old daughter she gave up for adoption as a young girl.

Minka Disbrow grew up on a farm in South Dakota, and she and a friend were raped as teens. She bacame pregnant and gave birth to a daughter:

For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen.

She hoped, but never imagined, she'd see her Betty Jane again.

The cruel act of violence bore in Disbrow an enduring love for the child. She kept a black and white photograph of the baby bundled in blankets and tucked inside a basket.

It was the last she saw of the girl – until the phone rang in her California apartment in 2006 with the voice of an Alabama man and a story she could have only dreamed...

Read the rest of the AP story by Amy Taxin, a former OC Register colleauge of mine, here.