Robin and Jordan Jeter were separated when they were too young to remember. The younger Jordan was adopted shortly after birth, while Robin bounced around from their biological mother to foster care and then finally to a legal guardian. The two met at a high school track meet in Washington, D.C. and have been besties ever since. “January 9, 2013,” the girls say in unison in an interview with WUSA.
“Every weekend we go over each other’s house,” says Jordan, a junior at Wilson High School.
“At first I didn’t know I had any siblings,” offers Robin, a senior at Friendship Collegiate. “As time went on, I only knew I had one sibling, I didn’t know I had anymore.”
The two lived in the same city and have an interest in the same sports.
During a track meet “my team was like, she looks just like you,” said Jordan. The two chatted and when Jordan found out Robin’s last name was Jeter she started crying. She was emotional because she knew she was adopted and her last name was Jeter.
Jordan adds, “I was so anxious to know more about her. Where did she go to school, how old she was, what is she like.”
They have a lot in common same shoe size and they sound alike.
“People can’t even tell us apart on the phone,” says Robin. “We’re always just playing around with people on the phone.”
Jordan wants to find the rest of their siblings, so far they have located four.
“It’s been so long I just feel like I’ll never be apart from her,” says Jordan.
