00:00When I was growing up, I would like sit there imagine what it would be like if I ever met
00:03my
00:03sister. I've never heard of this happening. My mind knew like I met my sister, but I just
00:08couldn't understand like that was actually my sister. I was adopted immediately after birth.
00:16My adoptive family came and picked me up, took me, fostered me, and then they adopted me. I knew she
00:22existed. I just didn't know anything else about her. I was probably three-ish when my birth
00:29brother was born. He was able to find me. He just couldn't find Kyan. So that was like the missing
00:34piece. I was adopted like right when I was born and my adoption was closed. So I didn't know
00:41anything about my siblings, my birth mom, or like my birth parents. And so I would wonder like if I
00:49had siblings, but I didn't know how many like their genders were or how old they were or if they
00:54were
00:54still in Montana. I grew up playing every sport that I possibly could. I started playing
00:58t-ball when I was probably three or four. So it's been my whole life. I've been playing softball
01:05and it's just something I love with my whole heart. I played softball since like I can remember.
01:11My dad was like really into it. He coached me through all my younger years. So it was a really
01:17big part of my life. And every summer I would play. Right after I had graduated from high school,
01:24the tournament that we were at, they invite like the top softball players in Montana from every high
01:30school. Me and Haley have been friends since we were little. And she played in that softball tournament
01:36the year before. She told Sam like you just look exactly like my friend Kyan. Then next year comes
01:42around and I'm on Haley's team again. It was the first game of the day and I was playing Sam,
01:48but I didn't
01:49realize it. Me and my family were sitting in the outfield like behind the fence. My mom left to
01:55Kyan's family and asked if her daughter was adopted. And Kyan's mom was like, yeah. And my mom started
02:01saying all this information about my adoption, things she knew about Kyan's adoption. And then it was
02:06obvious that we had to be sisters. During a lightning delay of the game that me and Haley were playing,
02:11my mom comes over to the dugout and she's like, you have to come over here right now.
02:21My initial reaction was just to give her a handshake. I was just so excited to meet here.
02:27I almost couldn't like control anything. Over the summer, we finally got to meet up with Kyan too.
02:31So it was all three of us. And that was honestly one of the most fun times I've had in
02:35my life.
02:35It just seemed like we clicked really well. Just the way we play, like catch the ball pitch is all
02:41the same. Everything and how we act will laugh the same. It's just like looking in the mirror.
02:45The biggest thing is just our smile and our giggle. In any situation when we're playing,
02:50we both like tuck our sleeves up. That's what Kyan's mom noticed too. It's just crazy. We talk
02:55pretty much every day, always checking in on each other, how college is going. I think it was like
03:00the best possible way to meet her, doing something that we both love. And it was just like a full
03:06circle
03:07moment. South Pole's been such a big part of my life. And I know that she grew up the same
03:11way.
03:11The fact that we got to meet through it, it just makes it so much more special.
