I grew up in a modest bungalow on the Southwest Side of Chicago. My biological family lived in an unassuming home in the suburbs north of Chicago. The houses are only 35 miles apart, but the two families might as well have lived on separate planets. That’s how different they were.
Read more about our parallel lives on Monday.
I can’t wait! It’s interesting the coincidences that often turn up in adoption. When I met my birth sister we discovered that for a time we lived five blocks apart and went to the same school.
My first family all lived within a few miles of me as well.
It messes with our minds.
Linda, that’s amazing. Do you have a relationships with your sister? What’s the age difference between you two?
It’s freaky isn’t it, Samantha? Maybe you even saw your first family at the mall or the library. It’s too weird.