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At 28 Years Old, 'Learning To Be A Sister'

After a DNA test revealed that they were half sisters, two women recall meeting each other for the first time. The discovery, for the both of them, fulfilled a missing link.
McKinney, left, and Sanchez share a laugh on the first day they met in-person in Phoenix, Ariz. "We didn't get to grow up together," Sanchez says, "but we will get to grow old together."

Courtney McKinney remembers what her single mother had told her about her father: "That his name was Charles and he was white, and [her parents] had a brief relationship and it didn't work out."

But she also remembers not believing that story.

As it turned out, McKinney was right to have doubts. When she was 16,

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