‘I thought I was alone in the world’: Saskatchewan sisters connect after 65 years
Before Monday, the last time Sharon Burant spent Christmas with her sister Darry-Ann Coles was in 1948. She was barely a year old, and her sister, three.
And aside from a few short hours they spent together with their mother one day a year later, the two would not meet again until 2017 — and only Burant would grow up remembering her sister existed.
Burant and Coles were separated as very young children into different foster homes. Despite family attempts to attain the children, each went on to be adopted and grew up apart.
From what is believed to be repression for her time spent in the home, Coles lived her life with no recollection of her sister or any memories before she left the home at age five in the back of her new families car. Coles’ adopted father was similarly never sure if she had a sister or not.