The Long-Awaited Reunion

As soon as Crotts approached her daughter, she knew the moment had finally arrived. “I reached out and grabbed her without hesitation and pulled her into my chest. My arms tightly wrapped around her tiny body. Her oversize BYU sweatshirt engulfed her, and so did I,” the mother recalled of the precious moment.

Crotts felt so grateful that fate had placed the two of them in the same place, at the same time. Now, after more than a decade, Crotts embraced her child as she had those first five days in the hospital! But now an even bigger question lingered: what would become of the newly reunited mother and daughter?