2007, Jiangxi, China.
Thomas and Jennifer, who live in Wisconsin, looked at each other, nodded, and followed a man into the door of the Tonggu County Welfare Home in Jiangxi Province.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas already had three children, all of whom were sons. However, the couple still felt that the home was incomplete and had the idea of wanting a daughter.
The process of adopting a child in the United States is complicated and cumbersome, and the time is long, so the couple set their sights on foreign countries.
In countries around the world, China's adoption conditions are relatively relaxed, and the handling fee is about 20,000 US dollars, because it is a populous country and there are more children in welfare homes.
At the same time, east Asian children have a higher level of intelligence than children in other places, so Thomas and his wife decided to come to China to adopt a child.
Jennifer
After communicating with the welfare home with the couple, the intermediary who came with the couple told the couple a piece of news that made them a little shocked:
"There is indeed a qualified child in the welfare home, who is now 15 months old. But... Oh, the situation is somewhat special, she has congenital heart disease, the situation is not optimistic, must be operated on immediately, otherwise she may not survive this year. ”
For this news, the Thomases could not help but be a little shocked, but they were already prepared for the child's illness, after all, the parents of healthy children are unlikely to throw it away, and the thomases' family conditions are also at the middle and high level in the United States, so they nodded and agreed.
In this way, a 15-month-old Chinese baby girl in July 2007, with her new parents, crossed the ocean to the United States on the other side of the ocean, and was about to start a new life...
Christmas gifts
After the Chinese baby girl was brought to the United States, she was named "Audrey" by her parents, and her situation was indeed not optimistic, she was 15 months old, and she would not even go. Fortunately, the medical level in the United States is very advanced, and after a heart surgery, Audrey survived strongly.
In the blink of an eye, 2016 has arrived.
After entering December, the Thomas family began to prepare for the upcoming Christmas. According to the tradition, on Christmas Day, Mother Jennifer prepares a Christmas gift for each child, however, when she learns that her younger daughter wants a birthday gift, she suddenly feels that the first two are big.
"What gift do you want?" My dear Audrey? ”
"Oh, Mom, I want a little sister, that's my Christmas wish this year."
"Aha?"
"I'm the youngest at home, and I want to experience what it's like to take care of my sister."
Christmas is less than a month away, and no matter how hard Jennifer and her husband try, it is difficult for them to give her a little sister in such a short time.
In this case, Jennifer had to ask her daughter if she could change her wishes, and now her mother really can't "conjure" a little sister for you.
Audrey was a sensible child, and seeing that her mother was a little embarrassed, she changed her wish: "I want to know something about my past, you always say that I am from China, but I don't know anything about the past, I think these are things I should know." 」 ”
Hearing this wish of her daughter, Jennifer could not help but breathe a long sigh of relief, this wish is relatively simple, she knows how to solve it.
Jennifer and her husband had studied China's adoption policy in order to adopt a Chinese abandoned baby, and knew that the Chinese government had a clear regulation that when an orphanage adopted an abandoned baby, an adoption advertisement should be published.
Jennifer thought that if I found a newspaper with an advertisement for her daughter's adoption and gave it to her, it would be equivalent to fulfilling her daughter's wish in disguise, which also had a certain commemorative significance.
Of course, it's been almost 10 years, and it's not easy to find a newspaper from 10 years ago, so Jennifer specifically found the agent of the year for help.
This agent was still relatively reliable, and really helped them find the newspaper that advertised that year, but when the Jennifers received the newspaper, the whole person was stunned.
The photo is a group photo taken by Audrey and the staff who take care of her at the welfare home, the problem is that there are two identical "Audrey" on this photo!
Looking at the two identical "Audrey", Jennifer's heart set off a monstrous wave, thinking: "This is really crazy." However, Jennifer also had a bold idea: "Why don't I find another 'Audrey' how it is now?" If the two children met at Christmas, it would be another wish of Audrey. ”
When all was said and done, Jennifer immediately got in touch with the head of the Tonggu County Welfare Home, and clues such as date of birth and congenital heart disease allowed the welfare home to quickly find Audrey's information and tell Jennifer: "It's a coincidence that another child was also adopted by an American family, she was born a few minutes later than Audrey, and she also suffered from congenital heart disease." ”
A word of fate
The other Chinese baby girl adopted were Mr. and Mrs. Scott Renbos, who live in Richland, Washington.
More than a decade ago, Scott and his wife Nicole's third child was born. The couple did not want to have children, but when they learned that they were pregnant again, they decided to give birth to the child. It was also the couple's first daughter.
After the birth of the child, looking at the white and tender daughter, the Scotts had a bold idea: "Why don't we find her a companion?"
Coincidentally, the Scotts also set their sights on China and decided to adopt a Chinese child, although they were told that the child had congenital heart disease, the couple chose to adopt it and named the child "Gracie".
After two heart surgeries, Gracie's health improved dramatically and she was living a normal child's life.
Ten years on, the Scott family is happy, and the older siblings take good care of Gracie, and the family often takes pictures or videos of their happy daily lives and uploads them to Facebook.
Soon, Jennifer successfully locked up the Scott family, which was 1,500 miles (2,414.016 kilometers) away from their home, through information provided by the welfare home.
When Jennifer saw the Scott family's daily life through Facebook, her heart was surprised and excited, too similar, Gracie and her daughter Audrey were almost like a mold printed, both of them also wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, both liked to wear plaid clothes, both children were relatively weak, but both liked sports, and their academic performance was also very good.
"It must have been God's arrangement!" Jennifer had only this one thought in her mind.
Sisters reunite
Jennifer is a fierce person, and now seeing the whereabouts of her daughter's twin sister, she was so surprised that she immediately sent a message to the other party through social media: "Do you know that the little beauty you adopted is one of the twins?" Do you want them to meet? ”
After sending this message. Jennifer uploaded a video recording her daughter Audrey's daily life.
When Scott's wife, Nicole, saw Audrey's video, she couldn't even believe her eyes, saying, "They don't just look the same, the glasses are the same, the voice is the same, the mannerisms, including some small movements, are the same." ”
The same abandoned baby from Jiangxi, China, with the exact same appearance, voice, and behavior, the chance of two children being twins is infinitely close to 100%.
However, just in case, the parents of both sides decided to hide from the two children first, and compare their DNA to confirm the blood relationship.
Soon, the results of the identification came out, and the two children were indeed related by blood.
Jennifer breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the results, then quickly took a photo of the results and sent them to the Scott family, and met the next day, on the Friday of the week before Christmas, to let the two children officially meet through the Internet.
In fact, the Scotts had also seen the newspaper with the adoption advertisement and the picture, but the problem was that they couldn't read the Chinese, didn't know what was written on it, and didn't realize that the two children were twin sisters. Now after confirming that the daughter still has a sister, the couple is immediately very happy.
Soon, the Scotts approached their daughter, Gracie, and solemnly told her that she still had a twin sister in the world.
Gracie couldn't believe the sudden news, and she even thought her adoptive parents were joking with her. Gracie had long accepted herself as a child adopted by her parents, and she never thought that there were people in the world who looked exactly like her.
It wasn't until her adoptive parents showed Gracie a video of Audrey that she accepted the fact and cried out in excitement on the spot.
The next day soon arrived, and through Face Time, the sisters Audrey and Gracie finally met again after a decade of separation.
When the image of each other appears on the computer screen, the two children feel as if they are looking in the mirror, the same black-rimmed glasses, the same hairstyle, except for the different clothes, the others are basically the same.
After the exchange, they were surprised to find that both of them liked to eat cheese macaroni and creamy chicken pasta, and they often made their mouths full when eating, and their favorite subjects were mathematics, and they liked to scare pigeons to play...
Because of this, when Audrey ended the call with her sister, she excitedly said to her adoptive mother Jennifer: "She is me!" ”
embrace
On January 10, 2017, the Thomas family and the Scott family were invited to participate in a TV show called "Good Morning America." Also dressed in pink and wearing black-rimmed glasses, Gracie and Audrey met for the first time in real life.
When the host shouted "Gracie, come out to meet your sister", the door separating the two sisters was slowly pulled open, and Gracie ran straight out of it, holding her sister and crying bitterly, while Audrey also hugged her sister and wiped her tears.
How could the two of them not be thrilled to meet what might be the only blood relative in the world in a foreign country?
At the scene of the show, someone asked Audrey this question: "Audrey, I know you have three brothers, and now you have a sister, what is it like?" ”
Audrey thought for a moment and said, "It's like, I've always felt... like I'm missing a piece, and now I'm finally complete." ”
Gracie, on the other hand, said: "Feel happy and excited from the inside out. ”
After recording the show, the two small families went to Santiago for a week-long vacation, and Audrey and Gracie played bodyboarding together and whispered together. In order to make the two children a true sister, The Thomas and Scotts also agreed to hold similar trips several times a year in the future, so that the two children can grow up healthy and strong.
After the separation, the two children still talk to each other every day through social software, Washington and Wisconsin are jet lag, and Gracie has to get up two hours early every day to communicate with her sister in order to communicate with her sister.
Audrey and Gracie were undoubtedly unlucky when they were born, having suffered from heart disease at birth and being cruelly abandoned by their parents and sent to a welfare home. The two children were also lucky to meet their loving parents and received meticulous care, and even reunited after ten years of separation.
There is a saying in the West that God has closed a door for you and must have opened a window for you. The legendary experience of the two sisters is undoubtedly the best interpretation of this sentence...
I believe that Audrey and Sister Grace will have a happy and happy life in the future.