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Facebook post shared 56,000 times helps man find childhood nanny after 30 years

The nanny, Yeny, wanted to adopt Francisco but her bid failed.

A MAN HAS been reunited with his childhood nanny more than 30 years after they were separated, thanks to a post that got more than 55,000 shares on Facebook.

The fascinating story comes from Logroño, Spain, and has been reported by El Pais, which witnessed the historic meeting between Francisco Javier Gimenez Diaz, now 35, and Yeny Zaera, his childhood nanny.

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On February 20, Yeny wrote in a post on her Facebook page how she hadn’t seen the children she used to look after because they had been adopted by other families, and she was not able to get in touch with them.

But the post was shared 56,336 times and, in less than three days, Diaz managed to get in touch.

Here is how that post appears now on Zaera’s page, after it had been updated announcing the two had found each other:

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And on Saturday, 30 years after they had been split up, Yeny and Francisco managed to finally meet:

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The story has attracted lots of coverage in Spain, and Yeny has explained why it has been so hard for her to get back in touch with Francisco.

Yeny used to look after Francisco and his three siblings.

Adopted 

In 1985 Francisco’s mother disappeared with another man and the tribunal ordered that the four children had to be adopted. Yeny presented her request to take Francisco with her but failed it, as she was a single woman in her twenties, and without a full time job. Her own parents were judged “too old” to take care of the child.

The four children were sent to different families in different regions, and Yeny lost track of them, although never forgot. Not even a private detective, hired by Yeny some time after the separation, was able to re-connect the pair.

It was Francisco’s sister, Raquel, who had managed to keep in touch with her brother and told him that Yeny was still looking for him.

Rapidly, Francisco got back in touch, and the search was over.

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    Jun 17th 2014, 1:37 PM

    Congrats, well done! A subject near to my heart.

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    Jun 17th 2014, 12:21 PM

    Make sure you tell him no testing on children now!

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    Jun 17th 2014, 1:56 PM

    James, I think your comment went over the heads of most people – I know where you’re coming from though.

    Wellcome or Wellcome Trust, now merged into GlaxoSmithKline, is the pharmaceutical company that mistakenly administered CATTLE vaccines to 80 babies and children in “mother and baby” homes in Ireland.

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    Jun 17th 2014, 2:21 PM

    Wellcome Trust is not the Wellcome Foundation. Sir Henry Wellcome used a whole lot of money he got from the Wellcome Foundation (which was the pharmaceutical company now merged with GSK) to set up an independent medical charity called the Wellcome Trust which is not controlled by pharmaceutical companies. They fund various kinds of medical research. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Trust
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    Jun 17th 2014, 2:42 PM

    Denis,

    The Trust only “divested itself of any interest in pharmaceuticals” in 1995 so, as far as I’m concerned, Wellcome Trust was indeed linked to Wellcome Foundation during the cattle vaccine “studies” in “mother and baby” homes, all of which were carried out prior to 1995.

    So, I’m sorry – I’m not convinced by your explanation.
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