Jordan and Robin Meet At High School Track Meet, Discover They're Sisters; Four Siblings Found

Jordan and Robin were sisters - but they had no idea. The two girls, Jordan and Robin Jeter, first met at a high school track meet in Washington, D.C., in January of this year. Someone on the team pointed out how similar they looked. After they realized they were sisters separated at birth, they became best friends. Jordan and Robin, 17, now spend lots of time at each other's houses.

"I come up here almost every day", Robin said. "Every weekend we go over each other's house," Jordan said.

"At first I didn't know I had any siblings," said Robin. "As time went on, I only knew I had one sibling, I didn't know I had any more."

"I was so anxious to know more about her," says Jordan. "Where did she go to school, how old she was, what is she like."

As it turns out, Robin, a senior in high school, was sent from her biological mother to foster care to a legal guardian. Jordan, a junior in high school, was adopted shortly after she was born. The girls were born about 9  months apart. For the first 17 years the girls were alive, they lived in the same city, but never met each other.

Then, in January, as Jordan says,  "my team was like, she looks just like you."  The two talked a little, and Robin told Jordan that her last name was Jeter also. Jordan suddenly started crying.

"I had already known about my adoption and I knew my last name was Jeter," said Jordan.

The girls have an uncanny amount of features in common: they have the same double-jointed thumbs, the same voices, the same shoe size.

That night, the girls talked on the phone. "I asked her, what's your mother's name on your birth certificate, what's her birthday, what does your birth certificate say at the bottom?" says Robin.

Jordan laughed. "I was like, what is this an interrogation?" she said.

They realized they were sisters, and since then, the two have been inseparable.

"People can't even tell us apart on the phone," says Robin. "We're always just playing around with people on the phone."

Jordan and Robin are now looking for other siblings. So far, they've found four others. The two are working together to find more.

"It's been so long I just feel like I'll never be apart from her," said Jordan, who was planning to meet her biological mom for the first time on Mother's Day.

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