{"id":70242,"date":"2026-03-28T04:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/north-carolina-woman-forgives-mom-for-disappearing-without-a-word-24-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:03:45","slug":"north-carolina-woman-forgives-mom-for-disappearing-without-a-word-24-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/north-carolina-woman-forgives-mom-for-disappearing-without-a-word-24-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina woman forgives mom for disappearing without a word 24 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Smith was reunited with her mother, Michele Hundley Smith, on Thursday after decades-long search<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A North Carolina woman whose mother was missing without a word for 24 years before authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/north-carolina-missing-woman-found\">managed to locate her<\/a> \u2013 alive and well \u2013 has reunited with her and says she forgives her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know everything is not black and white \u2013 there\u2019s a whole gray area,\u201d Amanda Smith said of her mother, 62-year-old Michele Hundley Smith, after they embraced in front of a courthouse on Thursday. \u201cAnd so I mean, look \u2013 life\u2019s too short for me to hold a grudge against her because she\u2019s my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/28\/north-carolina-woman-forgives-mom-for-disappearing-without-a-word-24-years-ago\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Smith was reunited with her mother, Michele Hundley Smith, on Thursday after decades-long search Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A North Carolina woman whose mother was missing without a word for 24 years before authorities managed to locate her \u2013 alive and well \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"North Carolina woman forgives mom for disappearing without a word 24 years ago\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/north-carolina-woman-forgives-mom-for-disappearing-without-a-word-24-years-ago\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about North Carolina woman forgives mom for disappearing without a word 24 years ago\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}