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After 40 years apart, a Chilean mother reunites with two children stolen during dictatorship

After 40 years apart, a Chilean mother reunites with two children stolen during dictatorship
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Four decades after a brutal separation, a mother was able to reunite with two of her children again, after they were taken from her native Chile by hospital workers in one of the thousands of illegal adoptions under the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.

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