They were once a pair of orphans abandoned by their biological parents due to congenital heart disease, forced to live in a welfare home for a year but were adopted by two different American families, and 15 years later the two sisters met by chance? How did they get together for a long time?
Gather celebrity anecdotes and taste the taste of life. This issue of The Legend of the World's Characters in Ziya Children's Fun takes everyone into the "Brass Drum Rose" - the story of Audrey and Grace.
One day in May 2003, a welfare home in Tonggu County, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, received two babies, and the staff found that the swaddling paper contained a note leaving the date of birth of the child, although the two children looked very similar, but because one was born on April 23 and the other on April 28, the staff did not think much about the connection between the two children.
After all, in welfare homes, abandoning babies is a very common thing, and under the economic conditions at that time, poor families could not afford to raise children, and choosing to abandon them in welfare homes was undoubtedly the best choice. At the welfare home, the staff gave the two little ones meticulous care and named the two children after the combination of the local place name and "rose", one called "Copper Drum Rose" and the other "Copper Drum Gem".
Later, they were quickly taken away and raised by two different families from the United States, and of course, they also had new names. In Washington, it was called Grace, while in Wisconsin, it was named Audrey. Since then, the two children have been separated and it is difficult to intersect.
Although the two children were adopted, they lived happily in the homes of their adoptive parents. Light and shadow are like arrows, the sun and the moon are like shuttles, in the blink of an eye more than 10 years have passed, the original child Audrey has now grown into a big girl. As Christmas approaches again, Audrey's adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom, prepare a meaningful gift for her.
It turned out that as Audrey grew older, she also became sensible. She slowly became very curious about her original family. And her adoptive mother, Jennifer, always knew that her daughter had a heart-to-heart wish. So she started publishing about Audrey in various organizations, newspapers and websites for a long time. She also asked the Tonggu County Welfare Institute to help them get more information about Audrey locally.
Shortly before Christmas 2016, Jennifer and his wife, who live in Wausso, Wisconsin, received an email from a Chinese friend they had commissioned. They opened the mail and found something incredible. The email contained a photograph of a baby who looked exactly like Audrey, and even more incredibly, the baby was being held by an adult along with Audrey.
The two girls appeared in front of the Jennifers at the same time, and they had a hard time distinguishing which was Audrey. Only then did they realize that the children they had brought back more than a decade earlier were twins. At first Jennifer had a lot of concerns about the idea of finding another child.
Because when she and her husband adopted Audrey, they found out that she had a serious congenital heart disease, and it took a long period of treatment to stabilize the condition. So they think it's a question of whether another child is alive or not. After a struggle of thought, Jennifer decided to take action, and she went through various avenues to gather information about another girl.
Finally she learns that the other girl was brought home and raised by another family in the same welfare home that same year, and that she is now called Grace, the news that makes Jennifer firm in finding twin sisters for her daughter. While posting information about Grace online and wanting to get in touch with her, she told Audrey the good news.
Audrey was overjoyed to learn that she had another twin sister, and she was desperate to get in touch with her long-lost sister. It took only two days for them to get in touch with Grace's adoptive parents.
Grace also lived in the United States and now lives in Richland, Washington, 1,500 miles (about 2,414 kilometers) away from Audrey. Grace's adoptive parents, Scott and Nicole Lancebey, were also surprised when they received photos of Grace's twin sisters.
They then took the photo and asked Who grace was, and Grace said that she couldn't tell which one was herself or who she was with. When the Nicoles told Grace all this, she acted nervous but happy.
Although they weren't sure what would happen next, they felt that the two twins, years apart, had to meet once. The next day, the two girls had a video call. It was the first time they had met after more than a dozen years apart, and although they were across the screen, they looked at each other, tears streaming down their faces, unable to speak several times.
When they were more emotionally stable, they learned to each other that they not only had similar appearances, but also many hobbies, favorite sports and foods were very similar. Even if they haven't seen each other for many years, this video call has given them endless words, which may be the power of blood and affection. And this call is also the best Christmas gift for both adoptive parents to their respective children.
After that, the two girls maintained high-frequency contact. But the connection has been going on online, and the two little guys feel that this is not enough, they want to see each other offline. That's when the opportunity came, and an American TV show called "Long Lost Family" arranged the sisters' first meeting.
When the next door of the show was opened, the two sisters, who had been expecting a lot, could not control their emotions in an instant, and the tears flowed. Both on-site and in front of the TV set were also moved by their deeds and left in tears. Attentive viewers will find that the two twins are so similar that their every move, every smile is the same.
Although the two children live in different parts of the United States, they speak in identical accents, and they both wear ponytails and black-rimmed glasses. Later, it was learned that although both children had congenital heart disease, they both loved the same sport and loved math. They even cry, even the mantra is the same.
These are all inductions that are unique to blood lineages. Of course, just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, the twin sisters also have some differences, such as Audrey likes ladylike clothes, while Grace likes sports looser clothes; and in terms of career planning, they are greatly influenced by their adoptive parents.
When Audrey grew up, she wanted to be a life-saving doctor like her parents, but Grace wanted to be a teacher like her mother.
When asked about their own parents, both children expressed their expectations, they were curious about their biological parents, but they felt that the nurturing grace of their adoptive parents was also great. As for why the birth parents abandoned this lovely pair of twins, we don't know.
It could be financial pressure or it could be congenital heart disease from two girls. As for why the biological parents didn't try to get the cute twins back after many years? It may be that time has passed, and the search for relatives is like finding a needle in a haystack, or it may be out of guilt, or it may be because of fear of hearing bad news about children.
The past is like a cloud of smoke, we don't have to delve into it, now the twins have a happy and complete family, with adoptive parents who love them, and all this wonderful experience is the only gift that the biological parents gave to the twins, and all of this will become their most precious wealth.
Audrey and Grace's story proves to us that kinship and blood are the strongest and most tenacious things in the world. It can overcome obstacles, overcome difficulties, can cross time, and can also cross space.
Life is a long way, we will suffer a lot of disasters from fate, and we can accept and defeat them. But fate is so fair, just like audrey and Grace sisters, after experiencing congenital heart disease, to being abandoned by their parents, to the separation of their sisters, to their own happy adoptive families, and finally the sisters reunited.
Finding each other in thousands of worlds is also a kind of fulfillment. Through their stories, I hope that everyone will maintain a sincere heart for life, love life, and cherish the present, because only in this way can our future be brilliant and colorful.
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