Daughter reunites with mother who went missing 24 years ago while Christmas shopping: ‘It was wild’

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. (WXLV) — A woman in North Carolina was reunited with her mother who went missing 24 years ago.

For the first time since she was 14, Amanda Smith was able to hug her mother, Michele Hundley Smith, outside a courthouse Thursday morning.

“It was weird, it was wild, it was emotional. I didn’t really know what to feel,” Amanda Smith said. “I ran up to her, hugged her, we cried a little, but then we had to rush in.”

The moment was cut short, as Michele Hundley Smith was due in court for a 2001 DWI case…

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