Adoption Story Stirs Woman’s Classmate, Follows Her When She Runs Out The Door.

I Love Cats and Naps collection is now available. The link is in the description below. What is up you guys and welcome into our awesome channel. Before we start, make sure to subscribe to see our daily entertaining videos and make sure to hit the notification button to stay tuned. In today's video, an adoption story stirs a woman's classmate to the point that she made her follow her. Make sure to stick with the video to know why. Life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. As the saying goes. One day in 2013, Lizzie attended the first day of her creative writing class at Columbia University. Little did she know that that simple decision to show up would change her life forever. The professor told the students to go around and tell something interesting about themselves. There was nothing strange about this request, as this was typical of first day sessions. Students and teachers got to know a little bit of something personal about the people with whom they will be sharing a room for the next several months. When it was Valverde's turn to speak, she was hesitant to reveal the truth about who she really was. But since it was a creative writing class, she thought to go all out and make a revelation. At Lizzie's birthday, she had been put up for adoption by her mother Leslie because she couldn't take care of her child. She was a teenager then, and had no means to take one of the roles of a parent. Fortunately, a family in New Jersey took her in. The class felt empathetic about Valverde's past, although they could see that she had been brought up well. After her turn to introduce herself, however, one of her classmates had suddenly begun feeling uneasy. Katie Olsen, her classmate, felt her heart begin to race when she heard about Valverde's story. She knew she could just stay silent and move on, but a voice inside her head had been telling her to speak up and reveal the truth. Olsen could not believe she would ever be in such a situation where she had to choose whether to let things go or stand her ground. Then, she made a decision. She followed Valverde after class. I worried that she'd think I was stalking her, said Olsen to reporters. But I didn't want to let her get away. I couldn't go home and sit for a week without getting an answer to this question. The truth was, Olsen was adopted as a baby, too, by a family in Loa, and her birth mother also was named Leslie. The room kind of froze, and I just said, Is this real life? said Valverde. She followed up with a rapid form of more detailed personal questions like, Were you given up for adoption in Tampa by a woman named Leslie? Valverde thought Olsen had been asking for too much personal information about her aunt, and strangely, they all checked out as true. Did she have a stalker? I think we're sisters, blurted out Olsen, seeing Valverde's puzzled expressions. At their births, both women were placed for adoption for the same troubled teen from Florida, and Valverde was older than Olsen by a year. She was adopted by a family in New Jersey, while Olsen grew up in Loa and Florida. Both then moved to New York City to go to school, and then eventually, take the same writing class at Columbia's University School of General Studies. Valverde knew that she had a sister, but she thought that she passed away. My adoptive mother was contacted in 1980 about adopting another girl from my biological mother, but she was told the baby may not survive because of complications with her birth and delivery, said Valverde. After that, my mother never heard anything further. We thought she never made it alive. Since the revelation, Olsen and Valverde had been inseparable, getting close and even planning to take vacations together. More importantly, they also introduced each other to their respective adoptive families, with their identities narrow and clear. There was only one more thing left to do. A year after they discovered each other, Valverde went to attend Olsen's graduation, and they had a special guest, their biological mother, Leslie. I feel like the world has come full circle, said the mother. So guys, what do you think about this family reunion? Make sure to leave us a comment about that, and give us a like if you enjoyed the video, and peace out.