Meeting their biological parents is a touchy subject for most adopted children. It’s a very personal decision. For some of them, it’s a necessity. It’s the one experience that will help them learn more about who they are. At times, meeting their birth parents helps them understand why they act the way they do sometimes. For others, it’s not that important. Their adoptive parents are their real parents as far as they are concerned.

It was about to be an emotional journey for an adopted woman who lives in Washington State. She recently received the surprise of a lifetime. She grew up ignoring that somewhere in the United States she had a long-lost brother. Of course, growing up she had no idea of this and it was until she became a mother herself that she decided to search her family tree for answers. She knew very little about her family but was sure that with a little bit of research, she would get to the bottom of it.

The Washington State woman by the name of Christina Housel found a man named Lyle James Berryman. The man was residing in Arizona and she contacted him through social media. As soon as they could, they arranged a meeting this past June. Christina was a little nervous. For some reason, as she started talking to Lyle she felt as if she had known him for a long time.

On the other hand, Lyle was a little skeptical at first. He thought this was one of those pranks that only get people’s hopes up and then watch them come crashing down. But as soon as he saw the pictures Christina sent him, he knew that she was his long-lost sibling. He found out they had very similar facial features including the same nose. The first meeting between them had been an enormous success and then Lyle decided to drop another bomb on Christina…both of them had another set of siblings who lived in Florida.

It had turned out that the siblings they had were twins. Their mother had told him this secret before passing. The only thing is that he had not been able to establish contact with them. Maybe now that he had contacted Christina, the two of them could work together to see if they could find them. They didn’t have a lot of information at the time but knew that social media would be of immense help.

They posted a picture of them along with a post on social media. They knew that if enough people shared it, they would be very close to finding their siblings. Do you think this would be enough? Click on the video to find out the conclusion.

Many parents will know that their children don’t always listen to them – especially when they’re going through those difficult teenage years and you just can’t seem to get anything right! But this is one situation that proves that even though it might seem like they’re ignoring you – they are subconsciously learning some lifesaving advice!

Jordon Dinsmore is a student at the University of South Carolina, an area which has seen an alarming rise in kidnapping and assault in recent years. Attacks have been taking place at off-campus housing areas, and students have been warned to be extra vigilant. Jordon had finished work one evening when she was jumped by three men as she exited her vehicle. Her assailants were armed, and they forced her back into her car.

They followed the usual M.O of such attacks and ordered Jordon to drive to an ATM and steal as much money as they possibly could. The criminals have then been known to assault their victims, and they continued to force Jordon to go against her will. But luckily, it was at this moment the student remembers some very important advice that her mom gave her.

“Never let an attacker take you away from the public eye.” As Jordon emotionally recalls in a press conference in the footage below, her mother was attacked herself and managed to heroically fight the man off, and later passed on this sage advice to her daughter. As her mother also explains – she never knows when Jordon is listening, but this is one time she clearly was!

And what excellent advice it turned out to be. Jordon left her seatbelt unbuckled, and before she could allow the perpetrators to force her to drive somewhere secluded, she made a daring leap from the vehicle as it was still moving. She got lucky again when neither of the remaining attackers could drive a manual transmission, and she managed to notify the police shortly after. It wasn’t long before men matching the criminal’s description were in custody – the same men responsible for the recent crime spate in the area.

Officer’s dubbed Jordon “James Bond” for her quick-thinking stunt, all thanks to her mom’s persistence in giving her potentially lifesaving advice. Watch her incredible story below and pass on these words of wisdom – you never know when they might come in handy and help you or your loved ones, and as the reporter says – “talk to your kids – you never know when they might be listening!”