Woman is reunited with her family FIFTY TWO years after being snatched from the Colombia streets at four years old

A Colombian woman has been reunited with her family after she was kidnapped 52 years ago.

Aura Guerrero was just four years old when she was abducted in 1972 in Bravo Páez, a neighborhood on the south side of Bogotá, the capital.

Now, she has been reunited with her brother after the two connected on Facebook as she searched for her real family. The two shared a warm embrace when they saw each other for the first time. 

'It's a real dream,' Aura said.  

Guerrero recalled walking to the corner store five decades ago to pick up a snack before a woman, whose features she still remembers, snatched off the street, according to newsgroup Noticias Caracol.

'I went out to buy a cookie and went to the corner which was a neighborhood store,' she said. 'When I returned the bus was parked. An old man was passing by, he scared me. I hid behind the bus while the old man passed by and the woman who kidnapped me arrived.'

Fidencio Guerrero (left) hugs his sister, Aura Guerrero (right),  after they were recently in Bogotá, Colombia. She told Noticias Caracol that she was only four years old when she was kidnapped off a street by a woman who was upset with Aura's father for spurning her

Aura Guerrero recalled walking to a neighborhood store in the Colombian capital city of Bogotá to but a cracker and being kidnapped by a woman and then being raised by a family. She said she was making food deliveries by the age of five or six and was just 12 years old when she found a job that helped her cover her home's rent

Fidencio Guerrero told Noticias Caracol that thanks to Facebook, he learned of a social media campaign that reunited him with his sister, who was kidnapped in 1972

Florencia Aura was four years old when a woman abducted her near a parked bus Bravo Páez, a neighborhood on the south side of Bogotá, the capital of Colombia

The kidnapper, she remembers, was 'tall, dark, with long hair and thin,' who separated her from her family because her father has spurned her love interest.

Guerrero said the woman spent a long time walking with her until they reached a bus stop. The abductor purchased a one-way ticket to the Villarica, a city in the department of Tolima, 111 miles southwest of the capital city.

A family unknown to Guerrero raised her and called her Gina. She was around five or six years old when she was making money delivering lunches to cover the cost of purchasing her school notebooks and by the age of 12 she was living on her own and paying her own rent in the town of Restrepo.

Meanwhile, Fidencio and his parents were moving from town to town in search of her, switching homes every time there was a new lead.

'We became gypsies,' Fidencio told Noticias Caracol.

Aura Guerrero and her brother Fidencio Guerrero share a warm hug recently when they saw each other for the first time in 52 years

Aura Guerrero's parents moved from town to town in Colombia and came to be known by their neighbors as gypsies as they fought hard to search for her following her abduction in 1972

A young Aura Guerrero never lost hope of finding her family. She was recently reunited with her older brother 

'Where they were told that there was a missing girl, we were there. I would study in a place, a city, and they placed me for a month and took me out because the girl really appeared somewhere else,' he added. 'That was the life of ours about six or seven years. My mother never stopped looking for her.'

Aura enlisted the help of Bogotá councilman, Julián Espinosa, who used social media presence to help her find her biological family.

Fidencio, who rarely goes on his Facebook page, received a message about a family who were searching for their relatives. He immediately recognized his mother and knew he had finally found his sister.

Aura longed to be reunited with her parents, but doing so with her brother is just as as worth it.

'It is something wonderful that only God can do,' she said. 'He put the people, the moments, he put everything to be able to find my family.'

The siblings are planning on celebrating Mother's Day and Father's Day together and can't wait to share stories at the Christmas table.

'This year is going to be more special because she is here and because we are complete,' Fidencio said.