KAREN PAUL

“About a year ago in March, I was going through my Facebook messages and I came across one from Amy Anderson. I started reading it, and she wrote ‘I don’t know if it’s you, but I think I may be your blood sister.’ I wondered about her my entire life and she wondered about me too. Her mom told her that she knew she had an older sister and her name was Karen, but that’s all she knew. But, she found me through Facebook. So, I did a basketball fundraiser and we made enough money to pay her way here and meet her whole family. My mom raised me for a short while and then she gave me to my great Grandma, then she got pregnant with Amy and gave her away to people we didn’t know. We found each other.” — Karen Paul is Yup’ik and lives in Alakanuk, Alaska.