An Adoption Story: Valentina’s Heartbreaking Discovery and Reunion with Long-Lost Sibling

[@carlapaz8722]

All my love to Valentina, husband, child, half brother, half sister. Alex, thank you so much for everything you do.

[@lornaviljoen113]

Alex - you are such a humble person. Your kindness has no ends. Keep up the good work with re- uniting families. May you be highly favorited wherever you set foot.

[@kaynewling3455]

Fantastic Alex, so important for we adoptees to know where we come from, and if possible to meet our birth relatives.

[@john_carter_of_earth]

Alex, you've done a great job helping them both enter their next chapter together, and have become even more professional with your video work. Well done, and congrats to Valentina & Alexsei.

[@Fibre_finder]

How amazing to have found a sibling so close by! It's lucky Valentina was so young when she was taken into care she must have been through a lot as a little person ❤️

[@ChristmasAtTheCastle]

A real story about real people, tragedy, and ultimately uplifting and joyous reconnecting with family

[@HitroLis]

Счастья Валентине и её семье. Очень смелые и открытые люди. Она большая молодец, что решилась на поиски родственников. Это смелый шаг.

[@kayradford3793]

Brilliant outcome

[@ladybearbaiter]

Alex, you are a miracle worker. God bless you

[@texasgina]

What a beautiful young woman. Thank you Alex for helping her ❤

[@irinaodaykina313]

Alex, you did a great work

[@letitiakearney2423]

Well done Alex for all the hard work and time you must have put into finding who her birth parents were. It was like the TV programme Who do you think I am.

[@rosemather7130]

Alex your videos are fantastic.

[@susanbaio1932]

Alex I love watching your programs. They are seriously well put together. Very professional indeed.

[@Studio64-e3b]

wow, great work! You never know what you are going to find, good luck to them all reconnecting.

[@stacycamacho59]

I can't imagine the abuse her mom must have suffered before she had enough.

[@alexgilbert]

A truly sad situation but I am truly happy that for Valentina she has some closure but also new connections for her.

[@itsonlystuff]

Great episode! 🎉

[@christinekeefe9004]

Awww I'm so glad Valentina got to meet her brother! Good job finding her family :)

[@alexgilbert]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@texasgina]

Alex, I could’ve watched another hour of this story. I would love to find out what happens in the future with her brother finding his father and if they get in contact with their other brother, and if they get to meet their sister.

[@marylott9294]

Well done Alex! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Solvang,California! ❤

[@nataliek.8352]

Amazing! Alex, you're doing a very important thing!❤ Valentina and all her adopted siblings were really born under a happy star, because in Russia they would certainly have a pretty different life like in a parallel world, I would say. Happy for all of you!❤❤❤❤❤

[@summerlake356]

They literally struggled to put food on the table, in the ex USSR, in the early 90s. It is not any stranger than that. Adults were scared, traumatised and depressed. That is why so many kids were given up.

[@alexgilbert]

Very difficult times. I know myself with being an adoptee also from Russia. It was really hard for my birth mother. Happened a lot during this time and throughout the 90s.

[@agresticumbra]

Is it me, or do I see some similarities between Valentina’s son & her sister?🖤 Thank you for helping others, Alex.🤎

[@korradog81]

I totally saw it! Valentina's sister and brother look more like each other than Valentina. Valentina doesn't even look like them. More than not females tend to take on more facial features of their fathers. It makes sense she wouldn't look like her brother since they had different fathers. Did they mention if Valentina's sister had a different father than her?

[@alexgilbert]

Thank you both for watching! For Valentina - Yes her sister in Russia has a different father. The sister would often tell us that it was a very difficult time for her as she witnessed a lot that happened. Thank you so much for watching 🙏

[@willmitchell2553]

@@korradog81maybe the brother and the sister have the same father because they resemble. Valentina probably looks like her father

[@marywalker2896]

Adopted children are traumatized.i was five years old when taken away from my bio family and adopted..I am now 74 and still grieve..

[@cosimaaltstadt9681]

Thank you very much for your done. Russische Kinderheime haben ihr Bestes getan und kein Kind wurde beleidigt oder beschimpft für das , was ihre Eltern evtl taten. Das ist Russische Ehre ❤

[@prairierose1115]

Very interesting!

[@marchegrundmann1232]

The older siblings must have had memories of the parents

[@alexgilbert]

The older sister Viktoria did yes, but was in a boarding school later on, but she definitely remembered the parents. Thank you for watching!

[@carinagrennan129]

Was she adopted with her birth siblings? Your videos are always so amazing.

[@alexgilbert]

Not her birth siblings, but other adoptive siblings who were also from the orphanage when she was adopted. Thank you so much for watching :)

[@estellesmith6418]

❤❤❤

[@MissLady-pq4hc]

👍🏼⭐️🎄

[@wendy77]

What about thé other brother?

[@alexgilbert]

Unfortunately he had disconnected from the family all together. Really unfortunate and sad for the family. But the parents are doing everything that they can on their end. Absolutely.

[@wendy77]

😢

[@kasiapek7575]

I knew she is baltic! :)

[@HitroLis]

To me, she has a typical Russian face. She seems so familiar. It was like we were in the same class or lived next door to each other when we were kids. She looks like a lot of people I know.

[@estellesmith6418]

❤❤❤