If you’re feeling a little bit emotional at all today, hold onto your hats, because we’re about to bring you one of the most heart-warming stories of the year.
Twin sisters, 10, who were separated at birth have met for the very first time – on live television.
Audrey and Gracie were born in China and put up for adoption shortly after. The sisters were then adopted by the Doering and Rainsberry families, respectively, who had no idea that the other twin existed.
The amazing discovery came about last year, when Gracie’s mum, Nicole, hired a researcher to help her look into her adopted daughter’s past.
This process produced a photo of Gracie as a baby, sitting on her mother’s knee. On the other knee, however, was an identical-looking little girl.
“How could it really be that there are two of them? As soon as I had that picture, I was desperate to find out who that other child was,” she said, on Good Morning America.
After a Facebook search, Jennifer found Audrey’s mum Nicole, and was amazed when she found an identical child to her own daughter in the photos.
Nicole was equally unaware of Gracie’s existence and found the connection ‘crazy’.
After establishing that the girls were twins (they even both underwent operations for the same heart conditions), the families decided that they needed to meet.
And meet they did – on live television, in the Good Morning America studios, this week.
In footage from the show, both girls are seen breaking down in tears as they embrace for the first time.
When asked how the first meeting made them feel, the emotional sisters responded with ‘excited’, ‘happy’ and ‘overwhelmed’.
Audrey, who had actually asked Santa for a sister for Christmas, told the show hosts: “I felt like there was somebody missing. Now I feel complete.”
