'You're real': Woman burned as baby meets nurse who cared for her

'You're real': Woman burned as baby meets nurse who cared for her, A woman, acutely austere as a baby, reunited with the assistant who cared for her 38 years ago for the aboriginal time on Tuesday.

Amanda Scarpinati, of Athens, N.Y., and assistant Susan Berger hugged in foreground of a account of the two women taken in 1977 at the Albany Medical Center in N.Y.

They were aboriginal photographed while Scarpinati was accepting analysis for catechize burns she
abiding afterwards rolling assimilate a beef humidifier as an infant.

The photo was appear in Albany Medical Center's 1977 anniversary address afterwards identification, and showed Berger as a adolescent assistant cradling the afflicted babyish in her arms.

Scarpinati said she approved to acquisition out who the assistant was 20 years ago but was unsuccessful.

"Growing up as a child, agee by the burns, I was afraid and best on, tormented," Scarpinati, 38, told AP. "I'd attending at those pictures and allocution to her even admitting I didn't apperceive who she was. I took abundance searching at this woman who seemed so aboveboard caring for me."

On Sept. 16, Scarpinati, acquaint the account on Facebook said she hoped the "powers of amusing media" could advice her analyze the woman who cared for her in 1977.

Twenty-four hours afterwards Scarpinati acquaint the picture, she had a lead. Angela Leary, who formed at the Albany Medical Center in 1977, beatific Scarpinati a bulletin and articular the assistant as Susan Berger. Leary wrote that Berger was "as candied and caring as she looks in this picture.

The women were captivated to see anniversary added afresh on Tuesday and sobbed as they embraced, AP reported.

"Oh my God, you're real! Thank you!" Scarpinati said.

When asked if the affair was the alpha of a continued friendship, Scarpinati said, "It already has been a constant friendship. She just didn't know."
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