77 years later, mother-daughter reunion is a 'surreal, amazing experience'
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. - Betty Jane grew up to be Ruth Lee of Viroqua. Lee started her search suspecting it was too late to actually meet the woman who gave birth to her more than seven decades earlier. But Disbrow's love for a child she couldn't keep endured all those decades. 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.
Daily Mail: Reunited after 77 years: Woman meets the daughter she gave up for adoption after she was raped as a teenager