There are many reasons why parents choose to place a child for adoption. In many cases, the decision is done in the child's best interest.
Sylvia Kewer was adopted as a baby and lived as an only child. She was told later in life that she was adopted. "All they could tell me about her was that she was not married," Sylvia told People.
After learning about her adoption, Sylvia always wondered about her biological parents and if she had any siblings. She took a DNA test to find out her ethnicity, and instead found out so much more! Sylvia received a message from the site she used that there was a possible relative who also took a DNA test.
Sylvia reached out to the stranger — who ended up being her nephew!
She then learned about her four siblings. They planned a reunion for months and finally, after decades apart, all the siblings met their long-lost sister.
Keep scrolling to see the emotional reunion.
Thumbnail Photo: Flickr / Kristie Wells
Natalie Graves Tucker documented the moment that her mother, Sylvia Kewer, met her siblings after 60 years apart.
Sylvia was put into an orphanage as a baby. Born Dorothy Mae Goode, she was adopted at 4 years old and her name was changed.
Much later in life, Sylvia took a DNA test without knowing that a nephew had also taken the exact same test. They were each alerted that there was a high match on the DNA site.
She reached out and, to her surprise, found out she not only had a brother, but also three other siblings!
Curtis, Billy Ray, Nancy, and Ralph had previously reunited at their mother's funeral. They were all convinced that Sylvia was dead.
“Billy found [his siblings] and everybody kept saying, ‘I guess Dorothy was dead,'” Natalie told People.
But Billy never wanted to give up.
This is the moment Sylvia and her sister Nancy met for the very first time.
Billy, Sylvia's little brother, also received the DNA notification that there was a potential sibling match after his son took a DNA test.
Natalie captioned this photo: "When Mama first meets her baby brother for the first time. The one who had done a lot of research to find her… after 40 years."
Sylvia felt incomplete her entire life, until she was finally able to meet her sister and brothers.
Just like Sylvia, Nancy was also raised as an only child.
Nancy had no idea she had a sister until recently!
The siblings spent months planning a reunion. In August 2017, they made it happen.
"God bless Billy," Nancy told ABC. "His persistence is one of the reasons why we got together — because he never gave up."
They met up in Abingdon, Virginia, and went through old photo albums and talked about life.
"I was happy. I was nervous. I was excited," Sylvia said. "To meet all these family members that are all white and from the mountains, and they love me so much. I got so many hugs and so many kisses."
Sylvia even met the nephew who took the DNA test, leading to everyone reuniting!
After years of feeling alone and empty, Sylvia now finally feels whole.
"I have felt an emptiness sort of and I wasn’t quite sure what caused it or why it was there, but when we were together for the weekend there was no emptiness," she admitted.
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