Mother, daughter reunite after 50 years apart.

And when she was just 20 years old, Lillian Higgins was pressured into giving up her daughter for adoption. Fate, however, often works in mysterious ways. And yesterday in Pineville, we were there for a reunion 50 years in the making. I always remember her birthday every year and I would tell her happy birthday wherever you at, baby girl. Happy birthday. You know, maybe one day you'll look me up, you'll try to find me. Lillian Higgins was 20 years old in 1976 when she gave birth to a baby girl who she was forced to put up for adoption. My mother basically took it upon herself. She said, yes, she's giving her up because she is a mixed child. But I got up before we left and I looked back at the place. Where I was, I was at my mother's home, and I looked back, and I told her, I said, one day I'm going to find you, or one day you're going to look for me. Here we are. Decades later, a relative got a possible match on a DNA website, prompting the family to test Higgins' DNA to confirm it was the daughter she'd waited nearly 50 years to meet. It showed that her name is Heather, and it shows that she was my biological daughter. And I knew then that I found her after 50 years. The other siblings in my family who have been adopted, all of them have some connection to their birth family. And there are 13 of us who are adopted. I'm the only one that did not have a connection. And so I finally got on 23andme. Thinking, wow, this is really cool. We live in the 21st century, let me do this thing. But then I was on for two or three years and I didn't get any DNA hits. And so I got disappointed. And so I just stopped looking out of the blue a couple of years after that. I got a hit from my birth niece. After connecting by phone, Heather and her family drove from Oklahoma to Pineville, Louisiana to meet in person for the first time. That's one of my best moments in my whole world. And Heather was the first one to walk in the front door. See her for the first time. Oh my God, you're beautiful. You're beautiful. And we hugged each other, of course. We've been nervous, and we haven't been able to sleep very well. So we kind of have had the same feelings about it. But when we got together and started talking, it was like, oh, Friends, old family, like we've known each other already. Really like we didn't skip a beat. It doesn't feel like we haven't met. It feels like I've known my family for a long time. Now they're making up for the lost time, excited to learn more about each other. A lot more visits to Louisiana. I hope that they would load up and come to Oklahoma, whatever that means. More family reunions. I know this is the first one with me, but I look forward to a lot of years of connecting and hanging out. Getting to know each other. And they say the nearly 50-year wait was well worth it. If you have to give your baby up, you'll feel heartbroken. But don't ever give up because look at me now. It's worked out. It took 50 years. As I said, it'll work out for you. Don't ever give up.