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VIDEO: Woman Kidnapped As Baby Finds Real Family -- 23 Years Later!

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Jan. 20 2011, Published 9:10 a.m. ET

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In one of the most amazing stories we've seen in some time, an Atlanta woman named Nejdra Nance found out she was actually Carlina White, a baby kidnapped from a New York hospital 23 years ago.

Carlina was just 19 days old when her then-teenage mother Joy took her to Harlem Hospital August 4, 1987 after a high fever struck. She was then kidnapped by a woman posing as a nurse.

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Police could not find any suspects, making it an ice cold case for more than two decades -- that changed last month.

Nance "was very suspicious of who she was and what family raised her," according to NYPD Lt. Christopher Zimmerman.

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She subsequently began researching her background online, and soon contacted the Center for Missing And Exploited Children.

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Officials from the agency began working with New York police, around the same time Nance contacted Joy White to compare her baby photos to those White had posted on a missing children's website. Upon seeing the photos, Nance told White she thought she was her long lost daughter.

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