this reply is so late, but i do! here's the spiel i had in mind, though everything is open to adjustment depending on interest: basically their family and sunny's did a student exchange when the kids were younger, where they stayed with her family in france for a time and then she stayed with theirs in texas. she immediately fell in love with texas culture and i imagine the two were pretty close, far as kids go, kept in touch. a few years later sunny's parents died - not having any actual family left she attempted to run away to texas. when that was stopped and the tx parents found out, they took the long necessary steps to adopt her (despite her being a few years from legal age) and they've been a strange happy family since. i kind of imagined the parents as well to do, something stereotypical like farmers, but honestly i'm good with anything. if you're at all interested, i'm happy to make a custom as there's a lot more we could hash out!