Friday, May 29, 2009

I'm not crying....my eyes are just watering!

I don't know the girls in the picture....I just grabbed it off of google images because I wanted a picture of two girls from Guatemala. Last night I sat in front of the TV and tears FLOWED down my face as I watched the coolest episode of True Life on MTV. I never watch MTV but I happened on to it as I surfed channels and then I was stuck when I saw Central America. Here is the story.....A girl living in Illinois was adopted from Guatemala 20 years ago (as an infant). She recently found out that she was a twin and that her sister is still living in Guatemala. She decided to do some research and she was able to find the lawyer and social worker who worked on their case when they were babies......the amazing part is that he was able to connect them. The girl and her (Caucasian) mom flew to Guatemala and got to meet her twin sister, older brother, biological mother, and grandmother. Wow! It was sooooo neat to see the two girls embrace each other and just cry. The most interesting part was that they couldn't communicate because one of them speaks English and the other speaks Spanish. It was very, very touching. Can you imagine what that would be like? Amazing but kind of heartbreaking too. They were living two COMPLETELY different lives and were at one time soooo close.......interesting.

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