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While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite
Brittny Mejia
By BRITTNY MEJIA
MAY 18, 2018 | 12:50 PM
In 1998, a jogger found a newborn baby buried alive in the foothills of Altadena, his umbilical cord still attached. The baby, not more than a few hours old, hovered near death.
For decades, Azita Milanian would wonder what happened to the boy after he recovered at a Pasadena hospital and was put up for adoption. This week, 20 years to the date of when she found him, the two were reunited.
"I was waiting for you for 20 years," a tearful Milanian said as she hugged Matthew Whitaker.
It was a reunion that came about in an unlikely way. The mother of one of Whitaker's friends wrote into the KIIS FM radio station explaining Whitaker's story and asking for a 23andMe DNA kit so he could learn more about his ancestry.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-baby-christian-20180516-story.html
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While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
May 2018
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Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)1. Gadzooks!
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)2. So cool!
Hestia
(3,818 posts)3. Sounds like the movie "Grand Canyon" - finding a baby is one of the plot points
area51
(11,919 posts)4. Is someone chopping onions? n/t
JI7
(89,262 posts)5. i saw this on local news . she was soo emotional . you can tell she has been thinking of him
all these years just wondering and hoping he is ok.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)6. Great story