Tulane
University freshmen, Mikayla Stern-Ellis, 19, befriended
fellow-Californian Emily Nappi, 18, met and became
friends at college before discovering that they're half-sisters through a
common sperm-donor father. But it wasn't just a West Coast
upbringing that the two shared.
Mikayla said she first made contact with Emily last summer while searching for a possible roommate on Facebook. 'There
was an online survey, and we were both interested in Wall [Residential
College],' Mikayla said. 'I was looking at the survey, and I was looking
at Emily’s answers and I saw that we had a lot in common.' By then, Emily had already secured a
roommate but the two continued to talk and became fast friends when they
met in person on the New Orleans, Louisiana campus this fall. Both
quickly figured out that they were conceived by a donation from an
anonymous donor. But neither thought much of it, even when they figured
out that both of their donors were Colombian.
When the girls went home for winter break, Mikayla told her parents about her new friend with whom she had so much in common. Mikayla's mother Heidi remembers looking through the donor list two decades ago and while there were some 1,000 donors on the list, she doesn't remember any others with Colombian ethnicity. After seeing pictures of Emily, and remarking on how much she looked like her own daughter, she told Mikayla to text the girl asking for the sperm donor's number. Emily sent the number and it was a match, completely taking the two girls by surprise since they had been joking to schoolmates that there was a '25 per cent chance we're sisters'.
When the girls went home for winter break, Mikayla told her parents about her new friend with whom she had so much in common. Mikayla's mother Heidi remembers looking through the donor list two decades ago and while there were some 1,000 donors on the list, she doesn't remember any others with Colombian ethnicity. After seeing pictures of Emily, and remarking on how much she looked like her own daughter, she told Mikayla to text the girl asking for the sperm donor's number. Emily sent the number and it was a match, completely taking the two girls by surprise since they had been joking to schoolmates that there was a '25 per cent chance we're sisters'.
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