My Sister Adopted a Five-Year-Old Girl Who Looked Astonishingly Like Me. At First, Everyone Joked That She Must Be My Daughter. But Just Two Weeks After the Adoption, My Sister Came to My House in Tears and Said, “Sarah, I Found Out Who Emily’s Real Mother Is.”

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When she lifted her head and smiled, I froze.

It was as though a photograph of me as a little girl had suddenly come to life and was sitting right in front of me.

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Mary laughed.

“Sarah, do you see it? She even looks like you! If I didn’t know where she came from, I’d think she was your daughter.”

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I laughed too, but a strange feeling of uneasiness stirred inside me.

Years earlier, something had happened in my life that even my sister didn’t know everything about.

For a long time, I’d struggled to have  children. And when I finally became pregnant, it ended in tragedy.

Ever since that day, I hadn’t even wanted to talk about hospitals.

Emily walked over to me, took my hand, and asked,

“Are you my aunt?”