{"id":745281,"date":"2022-01-11T20:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/scottish-siblings-in-their-30s-meet-for-first-time-thanks-to-ebay-purchase\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:56:30","slug":"scottish-siblings-in-their-30s-meet-for-first-time-thanks-to-ebay-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/scottish-siblings-in-their-30s-meet-for-first-time-thanks-to-ebay-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish siblings in their 30s meet for first time, thanks to eBay purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"975\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Scottish-siblings-in-their-30s-meet-for-first-time-thanks-to-eBay-purchase.jpg\" title=\"Scottish siblings in their 30s meet for first time, thanks to eBay purchase\" alt=\"Scottish siblings in their 30s meet for first time, thanks to eBay purchase\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ross Colquhoun, 37, of Edinburgh, Scotland, said he met his 31-year-old sister, Erin, for the first time after he bought an item on eBay and the seller turned out to be the father he never met. Photo by\u00a0lukasbieri\/Pixabay.com<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A pair of Scottish siblings who grew up in the same city met for the first time in their 30s thanks to an eBay purchase that led to a family connection.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Colquhoun, 37, who shared his story <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosscolquhoun\/status\/1480630471457488900\">on Twitter<\/a>, said he and his sister, Erin, 31, met Monday.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Colquhoun said the story of the reunion began two years earlier, when he bought a Hearts vs. Liverpool soccer game program on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>He said he received a message from the seller saying his purchase was being refunded, and the seller then explained why &#8212; he was the father Colquhoun had never met.<\/p>\n<p>Colquhoun said the eBay purchase led to his getting to know his father&#8217;s side of the family, but the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way of his meeting his sister until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We laughed, we cried, and we shared stories. It felt like we&#8217;d known each other our entire lives,&#8221; Colquhoun tweeted. &#8220;I was extremely nervous, but it was an absolutely beautiful and life affirming experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that he found he had a lot in common with his long-lost sibling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked about our lives and experiences, which seem remarkably similar. Erin studied at Glasgow School of Art, whereas I attended Edinburgh College of Art.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trepidation is still there, but I&#8217;m really looking forward to meeting the family members I&#8217;ve yet to meet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Colquhoun, 37, of Edinburgh, Scotland, said he met his 31-year-old sister, Erin, for the first time after he bought an item on eBay and the seller turned out to be the father he never met. Photo by\u00a0lukasbieri\/Pixabay.com Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212; A pair of Scottish siblings who grew up in the same city met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}