
A chance meeting at an athletics track has led to two 17-year-old
girls discovering that they are in fact long lost sisters. Jordan and
Robin were born just nine months apart. Jordan was adopted shortly after
birth, while Robin initially lived with her biological mother before
being taken into foster care and eventually living with a legal
guardian.
Although both lived in Washington D.C., played some of the same
sports, and attended schools just minutes apart their paths never
crossed until that fateful day in January. At the track meeting, friends
of Jordan told her there was another girl at the event who looked just
like her.
The two girls started talking and before long Jordan was crying after finding out that Robin’s last name was Jeter.
‘I had already known about my adoption and I knew my last name was
Jeter,’ Jordan told USAToday. That night the two girls talked on the
phone and compared birth certificates in an attempt to work out if they
really could be sisters.
It is uncanny how similar the two girls are, despite spending none of
their 17 years together. As well as looking alike, they sound alike,
both have double jointed thumbs and wear the same shoe size. It is also a
reunion that almost never happened, as Jordan had only joined the track
team to stay in shape.
‘If I wouldn’t have, I would have never met her,’ she said. ‘I’m so
thankful I joined track.’ Now that they’ve found each other their next
task is to track down their other siblings and so far four have been
found. ‘It’s been so long I just feel like I’ll never be apart from
her,’ said Jordan, who finally met her biological mom yesterday,
Mother’s Day.
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