Meet my great-grandparents, Vukosav and Agnes. This is their life story…which eventually led to me.

After immigrating from Montenegro, Vukosav met and befriended two Polish immigrants in Ohio: Agnes and her husband. Agnes had two children, an older daughter Mary, and a son, Joseph, pictured immediately next to his mother.

Agnes eloped with my great-grandfather, Vukosav, leaving her daughter Mary in Ohio and taking her son Joseph.

Agnes and Vukosav settled in Arizona and had five children between them. One of those five children was my grandmother, Mary, who is pictured on the far right. She was named after the child that her mother left behind and would never see again.

Fatefully, my grandmother eventually met her half-sister, Mary, as a young adult. As the story goes, when Mary met Mary, the similarities were astonishing. ~shared by @edwardazuar