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2nd July 2018
05:19pm BST

"I said no I'm not going to ask her. What if she never knew about me? What if it's a secret?"But her husband insisted that if she didn't ask, he would. https://www.instagram.com/p/BH32Ur1jYLc/?taken-by=hillaryelyse That afternoon they popped over to their new neighbours and Hillary couldn't help but notice the similarities between herself and Dawn ;
“I go out there and I stand by her and I start talking to her, and I kept looking at her curly hair. I have curly hair. I looked at her hands; they look just like mine. I have large hands, man hands I call them.”But ultimately Harris could not work up the nerve and left for home disheartened. Later that evening though she just couldn't get Dawn off her mind and decided she had to know, so she found her mobile phone number and texted her.
Harris knew some small bits of information about her sister and her biological family and used that to start the conversation.
She text to ask if Johnson was Loyal Corn Fest queen in 1983 and what her father's name was.
She replied back that her father was Wayne Clouse and this was exactly the answer that Harris was hoping for.
At that moment Johnson realised that her birth father, whom she never met until she was 18 may have had other children and on calling Hillary asked ;
"You and me have the same dad don't we?"https://www.instagram.com/p/BkeZ0JkFGf5/?taken-by=hillaryelyse After years of searching, Harris has finally found her sister in the most unlikely of places... right next door. The two have since become inseparable and spend almost all of their free time together. Harris said that people have even remarked at how much her daughter Stella looks like Dawn.
"I love sharing it because it’s such a beautiful happy story,” Harris said. “I know a lot of people struggle with adoption things and finding their biological family. But I want to tell them to not give up. Keep looking. Look everywhere. Go look next door. You don’t know what you’ll find."I have people in my life who have long lost relatives that they would love to reconnect with and reading stories like this give me hope that one day they will be as successful in their efforts to find their loved ones.