# My Long Lost Sister **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942 "2007-02-20T08:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/61 "2007-06-04T13:23:25Z")
Cool, **chowder**! I’m very glad it all went well 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/62 "2007-06-04T13:37:43Z")
That’s really great to hear **chowder**! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/63 "2007-06-04T13:39:47Z")
Glad to hear it went so well, **chowder!** ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/64 "2007-06-04T13:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=Barrington] It’s very cool - congratulations, **chowder** , and thanks for keeping us informed. Villa in Majorca, eh? Lucky bastard … [/QUOTE] My bro is not the only lucky bastard…his owning a villa there means yours truly just has to buy a flight and whoopee 😛 I also have a lady friend who works for BA 😃 Course I’ll have to buy my own food and drink but I reckon I can handle that. Michael also has a car over there which he shares with a Spanish guy, when Mikes there he uses it, rest of the time El Cid has it. Sorry but I don’t know his name. This seems a very lucrative arrangement seeing as El Cid has it most of the time he has agreed to pay for 66% of repairs and other incidentals ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/65 "2007-06-04T14:04:23Z")
Aw. _sniffle_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/66 "2007-06-04T17:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Michael also has a car over there which he shares with a Spanish guy, when Mikes there he uses it, rest of the time El Cid has it. Sorry but I don’t know his name. This seems a very lucrative arrangement seeing as El Cid has it most of the time he has agreed to pay for 66% of repairs and other incidentals [/QUOTE] Ach, El Cid’s probably only using it to facilitate the shuttling of herbal tobacco and breath mints around the livelier pubs and clubs of the Balearic Islands! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/67 "2007-06-04T18:20:23Z")
Now if we could only get Speed and Rex to share in your joy. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/68 "2007-06-04T18:40:26Z")
That’s was beautiful, Chowder. \ I’m happy for you that you fell into each other’s lives so readily. When I met my long-lost brother in May 1998, it felt like the joy of birth and a sense of loss all at once. He’s wonderful, and I only wish my mother had been alive to see him. I wish he’d had a chance to meet her. He’s the one of all her children (10) who most resembles her- physically as well as interests-wise. 9 years later, and I can’t imagine our family without him, his wife, his son, his daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/69 "2007-06-06T01:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well we met. A moving moment I can assure you, to see and meet a close blood relative that you had never met before is quite an experience. … My sis has 3 kids and to my and Michaels amazement her 2 boys were named after both me and Mike, this despite her never knowing our names until she had traced us…weird or what? Her daughter is named after my mothers mother even weirder!! We had a hell of a lot to talk about, questions and answers galore. Earlier today we took her to Southern Cemetary to see mums grave and we all cried our bloody eyes out, laid flowers and left, still with tears streaming down our faces. She stayed overnight and she left about 45 minutes ago for the drive back to Middlesborough, I asked her to call to say she got back safely and all in all I can honestly say that this weekend has been possibly one of the most poignant of my life, my brothers also. One regret, that mum wasn’t alive to see her, both would have been overjoyed [/QUOTE] Oh that’s marvellous. 🙂 Well, not that your mum was not around any more, of course, but everything else - terrific. What a great set of coincidences about the names, too. What a nice happy happy story. 🙂 I hope you never lose touch again. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/70 "2007-06-06T07:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=Celyn] Oh that’s marvellous. 🙂 Well, not that your mum was not around any more, of course, but everything else - terrific. What a great set of coincidences about the names, too. What a nice happy happy story. 🙂 I hope you never lose touch again. [/QUOTE] Yes the names thing was a total stunner. We asked her why she hadn’t told us this before we met and she said that she was saving it as a surprise, it certainly was that. We’ll never lose touch, never ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/71 "2007-06-06T16:48:59Z")
What a wonderful story. Thanks to you, **chowder** and the others who’ve shared their adoption stories. I just read [The Girls Who Went Away](http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/1594200947/ref=sr_1_1/104-5450680-2635959?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181148364&sr=8-1) which had me in tears, and these stories here have really touched me, too. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/72 "2007-06-06T18:33:17Z")
Well I guess that about wraps the saga up except for a few things. I have to thank all of you for bearing with me, for the support and advice given. All of it was much appreciated. Finally, I told my sis that I’d posted the story on this board, do not be surprised if at some time a guest pops in to say thanks ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/73 "2007-06-06T18:42:55Z")
What a truly excellent story. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/74 "2007-06-06T19:52:29Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] What a truly excellent story. Thanks for sharing. [/QUOTE] +1 - congrats on navigating potentially choppy waters very successfully! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/75 "2007-06-06T20:46:00Z")
Congratulations **chowder**! That was a really touching story and I do know exactly what you mean about meeting a close relative for the first time, it’s really a strange thing to see your own features in someone you’ve never met before. I had a similar experience with a long-lost relative with duplicate names. It also turned out that he and I owned the exact same car: same make, model, year and color. Makes me wonder where on the human genome are the proteins that code for ‘light gold Acura’. Best wishes to you, your brother and sister for a long, happy relationship. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/76 "2007-09-03T15:35:24Z")
Slight update here. Last Saturday, Sept. 1st, was my sisters birthday so my brother and myself booked a room at a restaurant and invited as many people as we could think of. Imagine the look on my sisters face as approx 100 people burts into a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday”…we’d kept the number of guests invited a secret, wanted to surprise her and we sure did that. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/77 "2007-09-03T16:01:45Z")
Oh, **chowder** , that’s wonderful. We need more stories like yours. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/78 "2007-09-03T18:35:43Z")
What a lucky family you all are. I read **The Girl that Went Away** too and it is devestating. A must read for anyone who is adopted, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/79 "2007-09-14T07:56:04Z")
Another update folks and apologies if I’m boring you. As I said in post 76 we had a bit of a do for her birthday. She obviously brought some friends with her, one was named Kath and I got on famously with her, nice person, very sensible. Earlier this week she phoned me and asked if we could get together sometime for a drink and a meal. Woo hoo!!! I’m 65 and romance once again rears it head just when I thought my days of wine and roses were over ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942/80 "2007-09-14T08:19:39Z")
A lovely story. Here’s to happiness! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-long-lost-sister/392942.md?page=5)