The Post helps reunite daughter with mom who ran away from family 24 years ago to live a secret life

WENTWORTH, N.C. — Her own mother didn’t even recognize her.

Devoted daughter Amanda Hundley was reunited with mom Michele Lyn Hundley Smith outside a North Carolina courthouse Thursday — 24 years after Hundley Smith disappeared and abanoned her family.

Hundley Smith was at court in Rockingham County to answer a charge of failing to appear for for a DWI arrest that happened just before she vanished in 2001.

But the 62-year-old absentee mom walked right by Amanda without recognizing her daughter on Thursday morning…

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