María Verónica Soto reunited with her daughters, Maria Beatrice and Adelia Rose Mereu Chessa, in Chile, 45 years after the twins were stolen as babies and placed for adoption with a foreign family. Courtesy Nos Buscamos

A Chilean woman whose twin daughters were stolen from her in 1979 has reunited with them for the first time in four-and-a-half decades.

The emotional reunion between María Verónica Soto, 64, and her daughters Maria Beatrice and Adelia Rose Mereu Chessa took place in the Chilean city of Concepción, in coastal Biobío province, after the twins, who are now 46 years old, flew back from Italy, where they grew up.

It was the first time Soto had seen her daughters since they were eight months old. The twins had always known they had been adopted in Chile, but had no recollect

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