The past has caught up to me. (updated 10/10/18)

All of my life, I’ve always known that I’d been adopted by my parents, that’s a secret that was never kept from me. 10 years or so ago with very little info to go by, I made an attempt to find out about my bio parents only to run into a major issue and the issue came in the form of sealed adoptive records. A friend of mine that worked for a lawyer at that time told me that since I didn’t have any medical concerns, opening the sealed records would most likely be denied by a judge. I pretty much gave up after that.

That all changed yesterday afternoon when I got a call from my mom, a woman claiming to be my twin sister showed up at her house looking for me. I contacted the woman and she wants me to take a DNA test to verify that I am her brother. At first I thought this might be some kind of scam, but she convinced me by telling me about her adoptive mom who was a nurse at the hospital at the time of my birth (long story). Anyway, I’m going to take the test today and we’ll see what happens.


Update: 10/10/18

Just got off the phone with the lab and from what the nice lady on the phone told me, we’re a match.

Combined Sibship Index (Full-Sibling): 995.75. Probability of relatedness as full siblings = 99.8%.

I’m not ashamed to say, I almost broke down, it was very difficult for me to control my emotions. Before I could do anything my mom called me to see if I found out anything and when I told her she also got very emotional. Who would’ve thought that something like this would happen after all these years.