Two Sardinian twins reunited with their mother in Chile after 46 years: "It was like being reborn."

Tears replaced words when Adelia and Maria Beatrice Mereu saw the arms of Maria Verónica Soto Toro, their biological mother , open wide . Forty-six years later, they melted into an embrace at the airport in Santiago, Chile, under the emotional gaze of relatives and onlookers.

The twins were adopted at just nine months of age by a couple of elementary school teachers from Escalaplano, in the center of the island, along with another Chilean child, Sebastian.

Raised in the village until the age of 16, they always knew they were adopted. "In our bedroom, we wondered: what our mother was like, if she's alive, if we have siblings," Adelia recalls. But the void of that lost mother has never been filled.

The full story, with Adelia Mereu's testimony, will be available in L'Unione Sarda tomorrow on newsstands and on the L'Unione Digital App.