In Ruth Padawer’s “Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Says She Wasn’t”, she talks about how she experienced growing up and living her life because of who she was defined as. In this reading, Johnson tells of her story of how one DNA test changed her whole life. She went her whole life believing one thing, but she was really another. After finding out the true results, Johnson was scared and embarrassed to go out and express who she really was based off of her race and ethnicity. All these tests were telling her slightly different results, so she didn’t know which was right. After a while, she finalized that she is of African-Italian race. Knowing this, she put her results up on the public quickly gaining comments and replies back from her long lost relatives. Her half-sister being one of them with the same exact story of being adopted at a young age. Similarly, June Smith, Johnson’s half-sister, was struggling her whole life with being defined as what she wasn’t. Both of them, however, began to express and define their true ethnicities. Like Chabon and Gay, Johnson overcame her struggle and expressed her true form.