Kieron Graham always knew he had an older brother named Vincent. Though Kieron spent years thinking about him, he could never track him down.
That changed in December 2017, when Kieron’s adoptive parents gave him an Ancestry DNA test as a Christmas gift. Kieron, now 21, sent his saliva (唾液) sample in for analysis. When his results came back, he was stunned to find he had a lot of DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it was labeled “close family.” His name was Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection.
“This is going to sound so wild...but I think you’re my brother,” Kieron wrote on Facebook’s Messenger app. “I was given up for adoption in 1997 and it says on my paperwork that my mother has a son with your name and your birth date. Her name is Shawn.”
“This is crazy,” said Vincent.
The craziness was just beginning. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other. More surprisingly, they attended the same university and majored and minored in the same subjects : political science and legal studies.
Vincent was nine when Kieron was born and remembers caring for his baby brother. But times were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nurse, decided that placing Kieron for adoption would give him the best chance to succeed.
“She was very emotional about that time, to the point where it was hard for her to put into words anything about what happened,” Vincent says.
Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week.
One of Vincent’s concerns was that Kieron might resent his birth family for placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didn’t, and that he’d grown up in a loving family.
Since that first meeting, the brothers have bonded even more. They play football together and celebrated Christmas with their families. “We’ll keep growing our relationship until it’s time to leave this planet,” says Vincent. That shouldn’t be hard. As Kieron says, “We’ve got years and years to catch up on.”
【小题1】What contributes most to the brothers’ reunion?| A．A conversation on Facebook. |
| B．An Ancestry DNA test. |
| C．Kieron’s constant tracking on Vincent. |
| D．The adoptive parents’ selfless love. |
| A．He used to be one of Vincent’s classmates. |
| B．He was separated from Vincent when he was born. |
| C．He was placed for adoption for the sake of his future. |
| D．He decided to return to his birth family. |
| A．Hateful. | B．Indifferent. | C．Affectionate. | D．Understanding. |
| A．The Power of Ancestry DNA Test |
| B．The Discovering of a Lost Brother |
| C．The Adoption by a Loving Family |
| D．The Bond Between Kieron Graham and His Brother |
