Editor's Note: KOIN 6 News anchorman Jeff Gianola will retire around Thanksgiving 2025 after more than 40 years as a Portland journalist. In this series, Jeff looks back at some of the most memorable stories he's covered and shared.

This story originally aired on April 19, 2023.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- "Hi, Jeff, my name is Amy Purdy. I know you have met a lot of people and probably don't remember me. But I was a Wednesday Child in 1987 or 1988. I was called Donna Ann Foster, but they called me Dawn."

About 36 years ago, I held that little baby girl in my arms and fed her a bottle. Now, she used Instagram to reach out and reconnect decades later.

'A really good life'

"I feel blessed," Amy said when we met recently. "My parents told me that they loved me from the second that they saw

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