Elisabet Purve-Jorendal was born in India and given away for adoption in 1973 when she was less than six months old. A Swedish couple adopted her when she was two-and-a-half years old. Forty-two years later, she tracked down her biological mother.
Elisabet's mother was 21 years old when Elisabet's father killed himself. When the family discovered Elisabet's mother's pregnancy, they took her to a charity in Pune where she delivered a baby girl in September 1973.
Elisabet began actively looking for her mother in 1998 and nearly two decades later, her search ended in a small village in Maharashtra. In 2014, she contacted Against Child Trafficking (ACT), a voluntary organisation based in Belgium. On 8 August 2015, she received an email from ACT which said they had succeeded in tracing her mother.
Elisabet flew to India to meet her mother. She told the BBC that meeting her mother was "nothing less than a miracle". Because Elisabet's birth remained a secret, she was introduced to her own brother as a cousin, and the family still does not know the truth. After the reunion, Elisabet no longer wants to live away from her mother and plans to live at least part of the year in India.