- WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A US
woman who thought her infant daughter had died in a house fire six years
ago saw the girl alive and well at another child's birthday party in January,
US media reported today.
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- Luz Cuevas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said she recognized
the child, Delamara, as her own immediately, even though the baby was only
10 days old when she last saw her.
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- "When she smiled, when she was a baby, she draw
a dimple, and the little girl, she smiled, and the dimple was there,"
she told CNN. "I say to my sister, look, she's my daughter, you know,
she's my daughter."
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- Cuevas was able to get a few strands of the girl's hair
and DNA tests proved the girl was hers.
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- CNN reported that police now believe that the fire was
set by Carolyn Correa, a family friend who was apparently intent on kidnapping
the child.
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- ncinerated. Cuevas never believed the girl was dead and
had always suspected Correa, but police never investigated.
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- "I believed in my heart that Delamara is alive,
not there," she said.
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- Correa has not been found but the mother and child are
set to be reunited once they tell the child about her real mother.
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- "They do not tell me when they are going to give
me my daughter back; they will say they let me know, because they are preparing
her for telling her the truth that I am her mother," Cuevas said.
But, she said, "I am happy. I am really, really happy."
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