Meeting the Family That Had Waited Eighteen Years

After her identity was confirmed, Kamiyah traveled to Florida to meet her biological parents and siblings — people she had never known existed until a DNA test told her they did. For Shanara Mobley, it was the moment she had waited almost two decades for: seeing, in person, the daughter who had been taken from her hospital room as a newborn. For Kamiyah, it was something else entirely — meeting strangers who happened to share her blood, while the woman she actually called Mom was somewhere else, waiting to learn what would happen to her.