Name: After years searching, I found my sister next door - BBC News
Uploaded: 2019-11-14T20:05:28.000Z
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She said, I know who my biological parents are.

I can feel my body sinking now just talking about it,

How on earth could my sister move next door to me?

My name is Hillary Harris. I was adopted when I was an infant.

My parents were very loving and very nice.

I came to Eau Claire in 2005 for college.

We bought this house, here in Eau Clair, in October of 2011.

That's when I went through the adoption agency and found out

all my information about where I came from, birth mom, birth dad,

I found out then that I had other siblings, but I could not find the half sister.

When we looked at the house, honestly we didn't even realise that it had a shared driveway.

The house that we shared the driveway with

it was actually a rental house. Like every year there was new neighbours.

And I don't know I didn't even introduce myself.

I remember that. I'll was just like 'uh, whatever.'

I was raised in Wisconsin in a small town.

I did not know who my biological father was until I was 18.

When we moved to Eau Clair we did look at probably 20+ houses.

The house that I finally found was on Craigslist.

I actually pulled up and the first thing I noticed was a shared driveway.

First thing that came to me is who's going to take care of the snow.

After I moved into the house, I did come to find a little girl was coming next door.

I did not like when Stella kept going over there.

So I mean, I would definitely like watch through the window

My husband came over and was like 'I met the new neighbours.'

I was at home one day and a big truck pulled in our driveway

And there was a big red banner, like wrapped around the shingles.

He's like, 'if you don't ask her, I'm gonna ask her.'

And I remember like looking at her hands.

Oh, she's really big hands, too. And she has curly hair.

I had a set of eyes on me that I could feel

And then they decided, 'well, we're not going to get back to the roof

We sit by and walked inside and my husband's like,

'Dude, what the heck? You didn't ask her?'

Well I'm like 'I couldn't couldn't! I'm just too scared!'

I never wanted to ruin anyone's life, you know,

or like be a surprise where they didn't want anything to do with me.

And now there's this woman moving next door to me...

I can make her really sad or I ruined some family secret.

So I pull up my father's obituary and see that it says Dawn Johnson

'Hi, this is you know, Hillary your next-door neighbour.'

I said 'yes, I was Miss Little Corn Fest in 1983.

I said Wayne Close but unfortunately he passed away in 2010.

And it was like silent for a couple minutes.

I said 'you and me have the same Dad, don't we?

Holy crap now what? Now what's our dynamic going to be like?

And the next day I ended up bringing pictures of her biological father

because she has never met him and brought her flowers

and a card and said, 'you know, welcome sis, I'm glad to meet you.'

We talked a lot. We spent a lot of time together.

We're very fortunate that we've had a very good have a really good connection together.

I mean, not like not like that, but I'll ask her for like, honestly,

I've probably asked her for at least 10 rolls of toilet paper.

I'm expecting another little girl in a couple months.