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Matthew Whitaker is incredibly lucky to be alive today, and he owes it all to the actions of Azita Milanian, who found him buried alive in the woods just hours after being born, 20 years ago.
Now, Matthew and Azita have finally been reunited in an emotional meeting on Air with Ryan Seacrest, the first time they have met since that fateful day.
“I was waiting for you for 20 years,” Azita said to Matthew. “You’re exactly what I’ve imagined. I guessed your size, everything. Thank you for coming into my life, you changed my life. I knew we were going to connect again. The day I met him he confirmed my faith. God brought us together for a purpose.”Azita found Matthew while jogging out on a hiking trail in Altadena, California back in 1998. He was buried in a shallow grave, covered in dirt and barely breathing. It was one of Azita’s dogs that alerted her to Matthew’s feet sticking out above the ground. “He went after something and I thought it was a dead animal or creature,” she said in an interview at the time. “Then, as I looked deeper in the dirt, I could see it was a child.” She began to frantically dig away at the dirt with her hands. Then, she said, “I screamed. There was a blue towel, and there was a baby in there.”
After dialing 911 with no success, she alerted a passing motorist to the situation. The driver headed to the local police station while Azita stayed behind with Matthew, comforting and cleaning him up. “He grabbed my wrist and stopped crying,” Azita said. “It was very emotional. What kind of sick human would do something like that? He still had his umbilical cord hanging from his stomach.”
Amazingly, Matthew survived and was put up for adoption. Azita never saw him again,…
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