As A Wisconsin Woman Got To Know Her New Neighbor, An Eerie Coincidence Left Her Reeling

Hillary Harris was looking for her long-lost sister — though only knowing her first name drastically complicated matters. But after years of searching for answers, a clue arrived in the form of a large package on her neighbor's doorstep. Hillary spotted the text written on the front of the box and shock washed over her. At long last, she'd found the key to tracking down her mystery relative once and for all.

Curious about her roots

Wisconsinite Hillary had been adopted as a baby. She didn’t really know anything about her birth parents, and for a long time she hadn’t really bothered looking into it. When she fell pregnant with a daughter of her own, however, she started to become curious.

A big disappointment

Sure enough, Hillary learned the names of her birth parents from the agency in charge of her adoption. Better yet, she was able to find her mom! But there was a disappointment. As Hillary later told the New York Post, that first encounter with her birth mother didn’t go quite as she’d expected.

No bond

“When I met my birth mom, I thought I would have this tingly feeling and an immediate bond. And I didn’t,” Hillary said back in 2018. But their reunion did provide one crucial piece of information. Hillary and her brother, Tyler, had been born after her mother’s affair with a man called Wayne Clouse.

Vital clues

Hillary would never get the chance to meet Wayne. He had sadly passed away in 2002 — years before she had begun tracing her roots. But she did uncover her dad’s obituary. And this gave Hillary a few more vital clues about her family tree.