A Mom Reunited With Her Lost Daughter After Decades Apart, But Then They Both Learned The Truth
Nancy Womac had to wait 42 years to see her daughter for the first time. She’d never even held the baby girl she’d given birth to back in 1979. But Nancy hadn’t forgotten her first child. She was always on her mind. And after that highly emotional family reunion finally came, the truth spilled out.
How it all started
Nancy hadn’t had an easy life. She’d spent much of her younger years at a children’s shelter. But when she was 16, there was a very welcome distraction: a boy who was also staying at the shelter. It was the start of a story that would lead Nancy through a whole lot of heartache.
The pregnancy
After the pair got together, Nancy eventually discovered that she was expecting a baby. Then news of the pregnancy soon reached the guy who was running the shelter. He had some tough words for Nancy — another big blow for a girl who hadn’t had much luck in her life.
“Going to take care of this”
“[The man] said, ‘This is what’s going to happen. You’re not shaming the children’s home, and we’re going to take care of this,’” Nancy explained to NBC News in 2021. So, she was taken to the Bethesda Home for Girls near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Nancy was three months into her pregnancy at the time.
“Like a nightmare”
“It was a long dirt road from the main road down to Bethesda,” Nancy added. “At the time, I thought it was the longest dirt road in the world. And then it opens up to this long, white building. It was like a nightmare.” Sadly, “nightmare” was the exact right word to describe her experience.
