Stories of family separation seldom have happy endings, and searches for missing family members that are carried out decades after the incident typically come to a standstill due to faded memory and missing documents. However, in 2012, an Australian businessman managed to overcome these challenges by using only fragments of his upbringing and a satellite mapping program to find the precise Indian village from which he had been removed as a five-year-old. This quest resulted in a 25-year reunion with his birth mother.
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