2022-03-31
22 分钟Hello and welcome to Outlook, the program that introduces you to people around the world living extraordinary lives.
I'm Anu Anand.
Today we're exploring what the word family means and how those whose family bonds are severed reestablish them later in life.
Lynne Price and andy Andriy were 8 and 9 years old and living with different foster families when they discovered they were sisters.
Andy, the older of the two, remembers the details of their first meeting vividly.
It was in a stark office.
The tile is light brown, and I'm wearing a brown checkered outfit with a pleated skirt.
Lynn has a long ponytail and she is cowering behind a caseworker.
She just kept saying to me over and over, you're not my sister.
You're not my sister.
When Andy tells that story, she can remember everything.
And that day in the office when I met her, I just clearly said, you're not my sister.
I just didn't understand and I didn't really want anything to do with that relationship at that time.
It was 1963, and Andy and Lynn had been separated when Andy was two and a half years old and Lynn was just 10 months.
Their mother had gone into psychiatric care and the girls had been fostered by two different families.
Andy picks up the story.
While I was being raised in my foster family, I was always told that I was a foster child, but I was never told that I had a sister.
So I had a different last name, which back in the 50s and 60s was unusual to have a different name than my family.
So I always knew I was a foster child, but I didn't meet my mother until I was nine.
And at that time they told me I had a sister.