SYCAMORE (AP) — Dan Cornwall thought it was a scam.

When a woman called him June 16 claiming to be his sister, he thought it could be a ploy to take some of the nonexistent inheritance his mother left. But as the woman started naming more than just family members, he realized her claim that she was given up for adoption at a young age was true.

On July 5, Cornwall, 54, met his sister Barb Buck, 63, for the first time at Parkway Restaurant in Sycamore - an establishment both knew without ever knowing the other had even heard of it.