As A Wisconsin Woman Got To Know Her New Neighbor, An Eerie Coincidence Left Her Reeling
Hillary Harris was on a hunt. She was looking for her long-lost sister — even though she knew nothing but the woman’s first name. Would the two get on? Would Hillary even find her sibling in the first place? Then her neighbor received a package. And when Hillary saw what was on the front, she knew she had a very important question to ask.
Curious about her roots
Wisconsinite Hillary had been adopted as a baby. She didn’t really know anything about her birth parents, and for a long time she hadn’t really bothered looking into it. When she fell pregnant with a daughter of her own, however, she started to become curious.
A big disappointment
Sure enough, Hillary learned the names of her birth parents from the agency in charge of her adoption. Better yet, she was able to find her mom! But there was a disappointment. As Hillary later told the New York Post, that first encounter with her birth mother didn’t go quite as she’d expected.
No bond
“When I met my birth mom, I thought I would have this tingly feeling and an immediate bond. And I didn’t,” Hillary said back in 2018. But their reunion did provide one crucial piece of information. Hillary and her brother, Tyler, had been born after her mother’s affair with a man called Wayne Clouse.
Vital clues
Hillary would never get the chance to meet Wayne. He had sadly passed away in 2002 — years before she had begun tracing her roots. But she did uncover her dad’s obituary. And this gave Hillary a few more vital clues about her family tree.
