As It Happens7:30He was stolen from his Chilean mother at birth — then found her 42 years later
When Jimmy Lippert Thyden met his birth mother for the first time since he was snatched from her arms as a newborn, he wrapped his arms around her and wept.
Wearing a crisp blue suit and carrying a bouquet of flowers, he approached Maria Angelica González outside her home in Valdivia, Chile, and said: “Hola, Mama.”
González — who had spent the last 42 years believing her son had died in infancy — held her hands over her eyes and sobbed. Thyden immediately collapsed into her
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