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Maria Mancia has spent 21 years not knowing whether her son was alive or dead. She came home one day in 1995 and immediately knew something was not1because she noticed what was 2her child along with every photo of him.

On this past Thursday Mancia was reunited with her3Hernandez, a 22-year-old law student. "Now this 4I've carried is gone now that I have my son back, " Mancia said. "I spent 24 years 5 him not knowing anything. " Hernandez wiped6from the face of the woman to stop her crying.

It has been a long time before the7. The8have been working on it ever since 2002. It was in February this year that they9the man they believed to be the missing child. "We didn't want him to10what was going on, " said Ms. Cragg, who was in charge of the case. "We didn't want to make him11. We weren't sure what the things were. We had to deal with it very carefully. "

The police needed a DNA sample from Hernandez to12 that he was indeed the child. The police pretended that they13the sample in order to help other people with diseases without 14 him. For next months Mancia waited 15while the police carried out the research. It was a 16. The police drove to Mancia's house to tell her. "It was like she didn't17us at first, " a policeman said. "She began to18. She said she couldn't believe he was still 19. " Hernandez was shocked when the police told him their finding, but he was really20to find his mother.