"Every time my mother got her hopes up. After 51 years, she didn't want to submit another DNA test. She was tired and she was hurt and guilty from carrying this all these years," said Victoria Highsmith, Melissa's sister."I'm thankful that we got her to agree to submit her DNA ... It is because of that, and my dad submitting, that we were able to find Melissa."
"Within three weeks we found my sister. It was like, 'Boom, boom, boom,' we found her," said Victoria Highsmith. "She has carried this pain and this guilt for 51 years and I have watched her cry for three days of joy. I have never seen my mother so happy," said Victoria Highsmith.Melissa has been living in Fort Worth for most of her life and never knew she had been kidnapped, her family wrote in posts on a Facebook page named
“I couldn’t stop crying. I was overjoyed and I’m still walking around in a fog trying to comprehend that my sister is right in front of me and that we found her,” said Victoria Highsmith."It's a Christmas miracle! It's amazing meeting her. It was like looking into myself, she looks like me, like us. She's overjoyed to be in our lives."
So glad she was found!
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