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Facebook reunites father and child given up for adoption 29 years earlier

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15-03-2013 | 12:03

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Facebook reunites father and child given up for adoption 29 years earlier

A US woman says a Facebook post guided her to discover another woman who she met at a party four years ago only to find out that she was a niece who had been put up for adoption.

Paula O'Brien, (39) said she posted to Facebook on March 6 about when her brother put his first child up for adoption.

She gave the date as Sept. 19, 1982, by mistake and received a reply from Abbey Donohoe, (29) a woman she met at a party four years earlier.

"You sure it wasn't 1983? Because that's my birthday & I was adopted ... crazy!" Donohoe wrote.

The two women soon discovered that Donobe was O'Brien's niece.

O'Brien said she and her family were overwhelmed with joy to welcome Donohoe back into the family.

O'Brien said her brother, who is currently residing in Tennessee and has three children, is excited to meet his first daughter.

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