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SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul 6, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A San Jose, Calif., mother has used popular networking Web site Myspace.com to reunite with her long-lost daughter.

Stephanie Lovatos said her daughter, Celina Aquirie, was taken by her father when she was 2 years old. Lovatos spent 15 years searching for her child and finally found her in June on Myspace, CBS News reported Thursday.

"I kept thinking," Lovatos said, "20 minutes on a ... Web site, after 15 years of phone calls and searching" is what it took.

Lovatos contacted her daughter through the Web site, and the two met last Friday.

Celina Aquirie was born in Maui, Hawaii, in 1989. Lovatos left her daughter in the care of the girl's father temporarily while she sought a place to live in California. During that time, Lovatos said, the father married and moved without notifying her.

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Copyright 2006 by United Press International

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