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Mexico Gripped by Custody Case and Mistaken Identity

Mexico City (AFP) - In a custody case gripping Mexico, a Texas woman had an emotional reunion with a girl believed to be her daughter after authorities forcibly sent the wrong girl to the United States.

Dorotea Garcia, who flew in from Houston on Tuesday, said she embraced 13-year-old Alondra in the western state of Michoacan, eight years after her then husband took her daughter away.

"It was great, the best chemical response. We couldn't help but feel the impulse to run into each other's arms . . .

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