When Terry Jones and her sister, Masami Grey, were abandoned by their mother in a park in Osaka, Japan, and subsequently separated, Jones wasn’t sure what the future would hold. But at 4 years old, she was certain she would never forget about Masami.
In 1952, three years after the sisters’ abandonment, Jones was adopted by an American military family in Louisiana. While Jones, now 76, grew up knowing Grey had also been adopted, she spent her childhood and much of her adult life completely unaware of her sister’s whereabouts.