Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters
DNA results confirmed the former teenage friends share the same biological parents after years of separated adoptions and a 100% match, Reuters reported.
- Two Indian-born women, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, discovered they are biological sisters after a DNA test revealed a "100% match." Both were adopted as babies by different Dutch families and raised in the Netherlands.
- When they first met as teenagers at an adoption agency event, they were struck by uncanny similarities in appearance and mannerisms. For years they wrote letters addressing each other as "Sis" because "we felt that way," until 15 years ago they lost contact.
- Minal took a DNA test while visiting the Netherlands in April, initially not realizing her match was her teenage friend. Upon reflection, she said, "We were sisters the whole time, but we didn't know."
- On a fine sunny day in August, the sisters met for the first time since discovering their biological connection. Reuters reported "tears, hugs and laughter punctuated their meeting, followed by their first selfie together."
- Since May, Meena and Minal have been speaking every other day, with striking similarities in their mannerisms becoming more apparent. "Everyone notices how we finish each other's sentences, how we move our heads or walk similar," Meena says.
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'I thought I had a best friend until DNA test revealed who she really was'
Meena Geltink, 43, and Minal Tijssen, 44, became fast friends when they met as teenagers (Picture: Reuters) When Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen first met as teenagers, they were struck by their remarkable similarities. The two women, now in their 40s, were both born in India but were adopted as babies by Dutch families and raised in the Netherlands. They became fast friends after meeting at an event hosted by the adoption agency their parents u…
They became best friends as children – unaware that they were full sisters. When they began researching their family tree decades later, the news came as a shock. “Minal was the missing piece of the puzzle that I had been waiting for so long,” Meena Geltink tells the BBC.
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from separate orphanages in India and grew up as friends. Now a DNA test has shown that they are biological sisters.
The two girls met by chance at an event as teenagers, and were already considered sisters, but it took decades for proof to be found.
Two women, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, who were adopted from different orphanages in India and taken to the Netherlands, met again years later. A DNA test conducted 30 years later revealed that they were biological sisters, as they had called each other sisters since childhood.
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