Long-lost sisters reunited in Hillsborough, N.B.
Global News
The reunited sisters have been spending their time doing a lot of firsts together.
As New Brunswickers celebrate Easter weekend with family, Barbara Sampogna of Hillsborough will be spending it with the sister she never knew she had until a few weeks ago.
Sampogna and her sister Lori Gladue were adopted into different families as babies in the early 1960s.
“Not that I didn’t appreciate my family and my life, but I always felt there was something missing,” Gladue said on Friday.
Sampogna became curious about her biological family after her adoption records were unsealed in 2012.
Her husband Dominic Sampogna took to social media, looking for any information he could find using his wife’s birth name and her biological mother’s name.
Noticing indications on Gladue’s Facebook profile that there might be a connection, he attempted to contact Gladue without any success over the years. He finally received a response a few weeks ago.
He told Gladue about Barbara and he birthday. She replied, “My sister. Our father and I, we’re looking for her.”
He immediately told his wife, who initiated contact with Gladue. The latter, now 59, learned she had a sister when she met their biological father for the first time at age 25.
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