Georgian woman looking for birth parents found dad was a friend on Facebook

Tamuna Museridze has reunited hundreds of families torn apart by a baby trafficking scandal – now she has found her own birth parents.

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She was calling the woman she believed was her biological mother. She knew it might not lead to a fairy tale reunion - but she didn't expect the response to be cold and angry.

“She started screaming, shouting - she said she hadn’t given birth to a child. She didn't want anything to do with me,” Tamuna recalls, explaining she felt more surprised than upset by the response.

“I was ready for anything, but her reaction was beyond anything I could imagine.”

Tamuna wasn’t prepared to walk away just yet. She wanted to know the circumstances of her adoption, and there was something else she wanted that only her mother could give her - the name of her father.

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