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Kelly remembered hearing that her uncle Richard Smith had lost a daughter many years earlier.
凱莉記得她叔叔理查德·史密斯多年以前丟過一個妹妹。
She called him to ask whether he might know who this woman named Mika was.
她打電話問他是否知道這個叫米卡的女人是誰。
After hearing Mika's story, Richard gasped. "Oh my God," he said. "Linette is alive!" Mikalin was born Linette Smith on June 30, 1971.
聽到米卡的故事后，理查德變得氣喘吁吁。他說，“我的天啊，林諾特還活著！”米卡林出生于1971年6月30日，原名莉奈特·史密斯。
Her birth mother, Barbara Wright, was 26 that fateful day at Penn Station.
在賓州車站那個決定性的一天，她的生母芭芭拉· 賴特才26歲。
When she arrived home alone, she told her family that her daughter had fallen from a New York City building and died.
獨自到家后，她告訴家人自己的女兒在紐約市大廈跌落身亡。
Her family doubted the story and searched for Linette in orphanages and hospitals near Barbara's New Jersey home without success.
她的家人懷疑這個故事，他們在芭芭拉新澤西州的家周圍的孤兒院和醫(yī)院尋找林諾特。
They later admitted Barbara to a mental institution.
他們后來把芭芭拉送到了一個精神病院。
Once she was discharged, she could no longer live by herself and continued to struggle with mental illnesses.
她出院后不能獨自生活，繼續(xù)和精神疾病做斗爭。
But she was still alive, living in Delaware, where a niece cared for her. Knowing Barbara wasn't well enough to travel,
但是她還活著，生活在特拉華州，一個侄女照顧著她。卡蒂知道芭芭拉不能長途旅行，
Carty arranged for Mikalin to fly from her home in Washington State to Florida to meet others in her long-lost family:
她安排米卡林從她華盛頓的家中飛到佛羅里達州去見她失散很久的家人：
an older half sister, Vivian Jackson, and her mother's brother, the Reverend Joseph Wright, who was at the hospital the day she was born.
一個半血緣的姐姐，薇薇安杰克遜，還有她媽媽的兄弟，約瑟夫·萊特牧師，他在醫(yī)院見證了米卡林的出生。
"Bless your heart," he told her. "You look like your mama." They embraced.
他告訴米卡林，“祝福你，你長的像你媽媽。”他們深情擁抱。
"I want to first say we humbly apologize for not protecting you ... I hope you forgive us."
“首先我想誠摯地道歉，我沒有保護你...希望你能原諒我們。”
Mikalin nodded, smiling through her tears. Then Carty telephoned Mikalin's father.
米卡林點頭了，喜極而泣。然后卡蒂給米卡林的父親打了電話。
He lives in Pennsylvania, where he receives dialysis three times a week.
他住在賓夕法尼亞州，每周接受三次透析治療。
He told his daughter that he'd been heartbroken to hear of her death, "but now that I know you are alive ... I'm so happy."
他告訴女兒，聽到她去世后自己傷心欲絕，“但是現(xiàn)在我知道你還活著...我很開心。”
Mikalin now talks to Richard as often as she can. Her relationship with Barbara is more complicated.
現(xiàn)在，馬卡林盡可能多地和馬卡林聊天。她和芭芭拉的關系則更加復雜。
They first talked on the phone the same day Mikalin spoke to her father, but Barbara didn't seem to understand whom she was talking to.
他們第一次通電話是在米卡林與父親通話的同一天，但是芭芭拉似乎不知道自己在和誰說話。
"She's overwhelmed," her caretaker said. A few months later, Mikalin flew to Delaware for another birth-family reunion, this time with more family members, including her mother.
“她不知所措，”她的看護人說。幾個月后，米卡林又飛往特拉華州與更多的家人團聚，其中包括她的母親。
But despite prompting from her relatives, Barbara didn't say much.
但是，盡管親戚們鼓勵她，芭芭拉還是沒說什么。
"Maybe it's that feeling of, she abandoned me again, when I was just right there," Mikalin says.
米卡林說，“當我出現(xiàn)在她面前的時候，也許她又有了拋棄我的感覺。”
Nevertheless, Mikalin isn't angry with her mother.
雖然如此，米卡林沒有生她母親的氣。
She's happy to finally know the truth, "to know that there are people I look like, and where my roots and ancestors come from."
她很開心最后知道了真相，“知道有和我長得像的人，知道了我的根源和我的祖先來自哪里。”
Her next big step: getting her name legally changed from Michelle to Mika Linette.
她的下一大步：正式把她的名字從米歇爾改為米卡·林諾特。
