Story highlights A woman is reunited with her birth mother after eight decades

"I'm not alone anymore," she says after the reunion

(CNN) Some adopted children spend years looking for their birth parents.

It took Betty Morrell decades -- five, to be exact. But she was recently reunited with the woman who gave birth to her 82 years ago, according to CNN affiliate WBNG

The mother and daughter met for the first time in more than eight decades last month in the lobby of the Greater Binghamton Airport in Binghamton, New York.

"It seems like it's unbelievable," Morrell's birth mother, Lena Pierce, told WBNG.

Pierce was forced to give up her 6-month-old in 1933 after state officials concluded she was too young to raise the child, according to another of Pierce's daughters, Millie Hawk.

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