David Aguirre’s palms had been shaking as he and his household anxiously awaited the arrival of his older sister, Janice Dunn. It was the primary time the long-lost siblings had been ever going to fulfill in individual.
“My coronary heart is racing now. Final evening it felt like Christmas and Santa Claus is coming,“ Aguirre mentioned.
Aguirre grew up in San Diego, performed soccer at Hoover Excessive College and runs a enterprise in La Mesa. For roughly 50 years of his life, he by no means knew he had a second sister as a result of his mother and father by no means spoke of giving her up for adoption earlier than they handed away.
So when Dunn contacted Aguirre’s household via the ancestry service 23AndMe, ‘It form of freaked us out, we didn’t know what to do,” he mentioned.
From the second Aguirre noticed his sister’s image, he knew they had been associated.
“I may see my father in her. My father’s eyes. All the things about her, she was positively associated,” he mentioned.
Regardless of assembly on-line in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2 solely spoke through textual content and e mail over time.
“My spouse mentioned it was so bizarre [that they never spoke]. We shared tales — I needed to attend for this second to listen to her voice,” he mentioned.
As his sister got here down the escalator at San Diego Worldwide Airport, Aguirre started choking up earlier than strolling to greet her.
When the 2 lastly embraced, tears flowed as the 2 took observe of their similarities.
“You look similar to dad,” mentioned Aguirre.
“Glad to see you. You look similar to me,” responded Dunn.
Dunn, who’s now an legal professional in Idaho, was joyful to be again in her birthplace the place she was in a position to exit and luxuriate in dinner with the long-lost household she’d been looking for for almost 30 years.
“We’re cherishing this,” Aguirre and Dunn mentioned. “We’ve misplaced fairly just a few siblings. However we now have one another.”
