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A MIRACLE: LONG-LOST BROTHER AND SISTER FIND EACH OTHER AT FORT WORTH HOSPITAL

By Harriet Ramos

August 16, 2022 5:00 AM
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Siblings Raymond Turner and Christina Sadberry met for the first time in March.
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Raymond Turner was at work when he got a notification from 23andMe that his DNA
test results were ready.

Turner, the producer at Cook Children’s Sparklefly Recording Studio, said he
couldn’t wait to see the results and find out which African countries his family
was from. But when he got home and opened the app that day in March, the first
thing that caught his eye was the name Christina Sadberry and the words “half
sister.”

“So my first reaction, I thought this whole thing is just a joke,” Turner said.
“They messed it up.”



He immediately reached out to Sadberry over 23andMe, but didn’t get a response.

Turner, who was raised by his grandparents, had no idea Sadberry existed.
Sadberry grew up with adoptive parents and had given up hope of finding her
biological family. The 23andMe test results and a Cook Children’s connection
finally brought the siblings together.




THE MAN IN THE RED SHIRT AT COOK CHILDREN’S

In 2015 Turner moved to the Fort Worth area from Houston, a move he initially
didn’t want to make because it meant leaving lifelong friends and family. In
December of that year he started his job at the Cook Children’s recording
studio, helping patients and their families express themselves through music.

In April 2015, Sadberry’s youngest son, Bryson, was diagnosed with a rare kidney
disorder. Over the next seven years Sadbury regularly brought him to Cook
Children’s for treatment.

About a week after Turner got his test results, Sadberry and her husband
accompanied Bryson to Cook Children’s for another appointment. They stopped to
see a Lego replica of the hospital and looked into the recording studio across
the hall, something they did every visit. This time they saw Turner through the
window, dressed in a red shirt.



“That was the very first time in seven years that we had seen anybody in that
studio at all,” Sadberry said.

A few hours later she saw a Facebook message from Turner’s wife, Maria,
informing her about the DNA match. She remembered the man in the red shirt.

“I checked on Raymond’s [Facebook] page and saw that he worked for Cook
Children’s,” Sadberry said. “And I was like ‘There’s no way in the world that
this is who we probably just walked past.’ And sure enough, it was.”




‘A MIRACLE’

For Sadberry, finding Turner was the culmination of more than 15 years of
searching for her biological family. She met her birth mother in 2006, but
couldn’t get any information about her father or whether she had siblings.

She eventually got on 23andMe, hoping to find some link to her biological
family, but without success. After a while she sent the 23andMe emails to spam
and quit logging in.

Sadberry described the experience as “surreal.”

“When I actually found out about Raymond, that’s when my youngest son was given
a clean bill of health,” she said. “So Cook’s definitely served its purpose.”



Courtney Rawls, one of Turner’s coworkers, said he was shocked when Turner
shared the 23andMe test results with him.

“That was exciting for all of us, and you know it’s been like a TV series,”
Rawls said. “Or like, you know, we’re waiting on the season finale right now.”

Turner and Sadberry met for the first time on March 25 in the atrium of Cook
Children’s. Sadberry said there was an “instant connection.”



Rawls said when he met Sadberry he teased Turner about the family resemblance.

“We were all masked up, of course, but, you know, when I saw her I was like,
‘Dude, you guys got the same forehead and eyes, so yeah, that’s your sister,’”
Rawls said. “And, wow, I mean, it was pretty good. I’m happy for ‘em.”

The two siblings laugh about their similarities. Sadberry was born in Brenham,
about 20 miles from Hempstead where Taylor grew up. They have the same favorite
ice cream, Blue Bell Buttered Pecan. And both of them share a severe intolerance
to cold.



Sadberry said their children even look alike, especially 11-year-old Bryson and
Turner’s 10-year-old son Elijah.

Sadberry, who is active reserve with the U.S. Air Force, was transferred to the
Destin-Fort Walton Beach area of Florida in July, but she said she’s thankful
for the time she and Turner spent together. Now they FaceTime and call each
other on the phone. Sadberry laughingly said she would like to own a Kona Ice
truck one day and sell snow cones on the beach with Turner.

Turner said their family has witnessed a miracle.

“For me, it’s the heart of God to see reconciliation,” Turner said. “And you
know, for me also to know that the links -- that all the things that had to
happen leading up to that. And even that day for her to see me there, you know,
it’s no accident.”




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