The Daily News of Batavia reports that the sisters 80-year-old Joan Billings, 78-year-old Shirley Mortellaro and 77-year-old Mary Kidwell were reunited on Sept. 10. The sisters' story begins in 1940 in Toronto.
They say that one day, they caught their mother with a boyfriend and told their father.
A fight ensued and the mother left with her youngest daughter. The sisters had been looking for each other for decades.
They finally succeeded when friends who were helping with the search found each other online.
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