Joanna Gaines divulged that even as she and almost two dozen of her family members walked onto the plane, her mother, Nan Stevens, would not give up in the search for her sister. “A few days after we arrived, an old family friend was able to track down my aunt,” she said of their arrival. “My mom met up with her in the lobby of our hotel, and we all got to watch them embrace in that hard-to-explain way where it feels like a lifetime has passed but also no time at all.”
Not only was it the first time in decades that the sisters had seen each other, but also the first time in a lifetime many of the other Gaines family members had ever met Nan’s close relative. “We had tears in our eyes, witnessing that missing part of my mom be found and restored,” revealed Joanna. The “Magnolia Journal” author also expressed how amazing it was having her aunt accompany them on their planned activities. Being reunited with her sister and showing her children their heritage was “the proudest I’ve ever seen her,” confessed Joanna of her mother.
The trip was incredibly moving in various ways for the HGTV star, who described feeling as if she was seeing her mother with fresh eyes when she donned her traditional hanbok, and feeling a surge of pride in her heritage when the rest of the family followed suit.
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