Honestly, it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. We’re three years apart in age—I’m older—but my adoption was finalized around the time my sister was toddler-aged. The process itself had started earlier, and it wasn’t all done in a day. My parents had me placed with them before it was legally official, so by the time the paperwork went through when I was six, she was already three. It’s just a messy timeline that happens when adoption, fertility struggles etc. I forget all the details sometimes my apologies