Long lost mother and daughter accidentally reunite

VIDEO - Twenty-five years had passed since Christine Goldmas saw her mother...

Apr 8, 2010

Twenty-five years had passed since Christine Goldmas saw her mother.

The North Philadelphia woman says she’d pleaded with family to give her information on her mom, searched the Internet and she even cold called and wrote people with her mother’s name.

Each time, she’d come up short. But Wednesday morning her prayers were answered when her mother unknowingly walked back into her life.

“I would’ve never thought in a million years to come to work and find my mom,” Chrisine said.

Christine was working security for the day at the Ridge Tioga Assistance Office along the 1300 block of Sedgley Avenue in North Philadelphia when she noticed a familiar looking woman walk in.

” I started getting butterflies and go ‘Oh my God, I think that’s my mom,’” Christine said. “Something tells me ‘Say something to her now, just don’t let her walk out of the door without saying something to her.’”

So she walked over to the woman and asked if her name was Lyvia Green.

“I said yea and I was like ‘My daughter Christina!’ and she was like yea and we hugged and we cried,” Lyvia said.

The two last saw each other when Christine was just 6-years-old, they said. Lyvia says she tried to take her daughter and other children away from an abusive relationship with their father, but was instead locked up for allegedly kidnapping the children.

“He moved and changed my kids name and I could never be able to find her,” Lyvia said. “I never gave up praying because I knew there was a God and that he would bring my kids back to me.”