Trotter\u2019s search led her to her mother, Harikleia Noula, who had been misled about her daughter\u2019s fate. Trotter\u2019s mother had been told her baby would be placed in a safe home, but Trotter was abandoned to an orphanage. After learning the truth, Trotter was eager to reunite.\n
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When Noula, now 80, learned her daughter was looking for her, she fainted in shock. After a phone call, Trotter traveled to Greece, where she and her mother were reunited at the airport with tears and joy. Trotter spent a week with her family in Greece, visiting often since then and even buying property. It was a beautiful story of love, family, and rediscovered roots.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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