My twin sister and I were about 5 years old when our parents were killed in an auto accident. And, since there were no close relatives that we could live with, we wound up in a foster home, waiting to be adopted.
Finally, after almost a year later, my sister was adopted by a family and we were separated. I got adopted a few months later but I never knew where my sister was.
(Fast forward to 12years later)
I managed to get into a midwestern college and was studying medicine, as I wanted to be a doctor.
My first year at college was rough. I wasn't the brightest bulb in the box and I had to work really hard to keep my grades up.
I needed help with my studies and found a name of another student on the bulletin board who tutors med students. I called the number and a woman answered. I asked if she tutored med students and she said she did. She told me the cost and I asked her if she would work with me.
We finally came to an agreement on money and the studies and my first lesson would be in a couple of days and it would be at the library on campus.
The day arrived and I was in the library when I saw a beautiful young lady come in and started looking around.
I watched as she went up and spoke to a woman at the information booth. She then turned and walked over to me. She said hello and introduced herself as Diane and said she was the tutor.
I nearly fell out of my chair. I introduced myself and told her my name was Ted.
Then I asked her, "Aren't you young to be a med tutor?"
She looked at me and said, "I am a second year student who is on the honor roll. I have been tutoring med students for a year now. Any other stupid questions for me?"
I apologized and meekly said no.
We discussed my deficiencies and she laid out a lesson plan that would help me. We worked out a time schedule and we were all set as the first session was going to be the next day.
Before we left the library, I asked her if we ever met before as she was familiar. She said no and that was the end of it.
The next day we met in the library and she gave me my first hour lesson which went well.
However, I still could not shake the feeling that I knew her from somewhere.
We had a few more sessions over a period of time and my grades were on the upswing, thanks to Diane.
During the sessions, we got closer and I asked her out and we started casualty dating, nothing serious, just dinners and stuff like that, with no intimacy, just friends.
One night, over dinner, I told Diane that I still couldn't shake the feeling that we met before. She told me that she was raised here, a few miles from the campus.
Anyway, with her help, I got through the first year of college.
Diane and I drifted apart as I no longer needed her tutoring.
Over the course of the next three years, I was able to graduate with honors and went on the med school and then did my internship at a local hospital.
Several years later, I was a doctor.
As I vowed to myself earlier, I went back to my small home town to practice medicine. I opened up an office and even hired a nurse/administrator, a young woman my age named Cassie.
Through the interview with Cassie, I found out that she was adopted, as I was. She said she was the same age as me and thinks she had a brother but wasn't sure.
The practice started to grow and with the help of Cassie, it really took off.
One night, for some strange reason, I started thinking about when my parents died. I remembered I had a sister but I couldn't remember anything about her, except that she had a unique birthmark that matched mine, which looked like an apple with a bite taken out of it and was located on her right buttock as was mine.
After a year or so, my practice grew to the point where I needed to hire another nurse.
I put an ad out and got a response from a woman. I set up and interview and was shocked when it was Diane, my tutor from college.
When I spoke to her originally, she told me her name but I never put it together as being the same person.
Anyway, the interview went well and I hired her.
Cassie and Diane got along well together and my business was thriving.
I asked Diane out to dinner do we could catch up and that, we did. She said she was still single and now 31.
I told her I was single and 31.