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Woman dumped in dustbin at birth finally tracks her mother down after 46 years

London: Haunted by guilt over the baby she abandoned, Angie Smith has spent 46 years wondering what became of the tot found dumped among the rubbish.

But after years of desperate searching by the child she left behind for fear of shaming her family, the 70-year-old was finally reunited with Michelle Rooney – and given the opportunity to tell her side of the traumatic story.

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