MOTHER AND DAUGHTER REUNITED 50 YEARS AFTER UNEXPLAINED HOSPITAL MISHAP

Gospel singer Zella Jackson Price,76, (left) of Olivette, Missouri, is reunited with her daughter, Melanie Diane Gilmore (right), almost 50 years after being told her daughter died hours after being born.

‘’ After almost 50 years, the family has finally had its reunion.A family is together for the first time after a bizarre and unexplained hospital mishap kept them apart for decades.

Zella Jackson Price, a gospel in singer in the St. Louis suburb Olivette, says she was told 49 years ago that her daughter had died in a hospital hours after being born.

But on Thursday, Price met that very alive daughter, Melanie Diane Gilmore.

Gilmore was subsequently adopted by another family, and believed that her birth mother gave her up. When she was 20, Gilmore's adoptive mother died, and she moved to Oregon to live with a relative. There, she began searching for her biological mother.

Gilmore's son and twin daughters helped search for their grandmother last year, using Facebook to track Jackson-Price down and a DNA test to confirm the match. Results came back in March, and it was "a 99.9997% match," Gilmore's daughter wrote in the description section of a YouTube video documenting the reunion.

There’s nothing greater. There’s nothing greater than this. Nothing,” Price toldKTVI.

Gilmore, who LIVES in Eugene, Ore., brought her own daughter and son for an ecstatic first meeting with her mom and brother, Harvey, for the first time.

Gilmore was a healthy baby at the hospital — but somehow doctors got confused and said the opposite, and she ended up getting adopted by another family. She spent her life thinking her mom had given her away and was now dead, the Oregonian reported.

 "There’s nothing greater than this. Nothing," Price said after the reunion.

Her children, tracking down Gilmore’s real mom on Facebook, made the family reunion happen. DNA confirmed what one hospital got so dearly wrong half a century ago.

Now they’re trying to investigate what went wrong in the hospital so long ago.’’

Gilmore, who's been deaf since the age of 3, was given the news by her children via sign language. Then she was introduced to her mother for the first time in a video message

"God has given me everything the devil has taken from me," Jackson-Price said "I'm getting it back. I'm getting my baby back."

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