The sick twins in China were abandoned and adopted by 2 American families, and miraculously met 10 years later

What would it be like if one day, an identical you suddenly appeared? astonished? fear? surprise?

In the United States, such an incident occurred, a pair of twins were abandoned by their biological parents, adopted by two families, and they were together for ten years without knowing each other.

Fate is always such a surprise and surprise. Hundreds of millions of people travel through the world, and the probability of two strangers meeting each other is low and incalculable, but such miracles can still occur.

The 01 twin girl was born with a heart attack and was adopted by two American families after being abandoned

In 2005, a small hospital in the county seat of Jiangxi. With a series of childish cries, the newborn fell to the ground. This is supposed to bring a family new hope and life to the little sun.

But soon the family sensed something was wrong, because twins were born. The twins are indeed gratifying and congratulatory when the family's material conditions are sufficient, but for this family, it is an even worse burden.

The twins are both girls and look very cute. Under the family's frugal care, he spent the first year of his life.

But the following year, when the twins were old, their parents took them to the hospital for a test and got a desperate result.

The twins both suffer from severe congenital heart disease and must start taking medication immediately or risk not surviving the next year.

The cost of medicine is high, and the family's already tight life has shrunk several times to the naked eye, just to save money for the two children to buy medicine.

But the money accumulated by the drops is difficult to withstand the money like opening the floodgates. In the 14th month of the twins' lives, their birth parents chose to abandon them.

In order to prevent the twins from being discovered after they were left behind, they chose to put the two babies in a welfare home through formal procedures in the hope of being adopted by well-wishers.

Since then, the twins have never had the opportunity to meet their biological parents, and the trajectory of their lives has been completely changed. They didn't remember anything at the time, and by the time they knew exactly who they were and what kind of life they were living, the world was turned upside down.

December 2016, Wisconsin, USA. A girl with black hair and yellow skin is playing in the yard in a thick down jacket. As Christmas approaches, she and her mother, Jenife, prepare a Christmas tree for the holidays and Christmas gifts for the whole family.

The little girl, who was clearly an Asian girl, was named Audrey, and she looked completely different from her mother, not because she was of mixed race, but because she was adopted.

Jennifer told her the truth from the moment Audrey remembered, and Jenife and her husband adopted the child at a welfare home in Jiangxi, China, when, according to medical examinations, she was not yet two years old.

Audrey prepared gifts for her family, but left herself behind, so Jenife also asked Audrey what gift she wanted.

"I want a little sister! I was the youngest child in the family and I wanted to be my sister. Audrey opened her mouth and made Jenife regret her inquiry. Having a sister, even if it is a green light, will not be possible until next Christmas.

In desperation, Jennifer came up with a good idea. China has a rule for the adoption of children in welfare homes, that is, welfare homes must register information about the child in newspapers or websites before adopting a child, so that parents who lose their children have nowhere to find.

According to this rule, Audrey must have been advertising at the beginning, so if you can bring this newspaper to her, it is also very memorable.

So Jenife specifically found the welfare home where she adopted the child, and found the newspaper on the Internet. But to Jennifer's surprise, she found that there was a child on the photo of Audrey's information registered!

It was a photo of three people, in the middle of which was Audrey's birth mother, and she had an identical little girl in her arms on each side.

Audrey is one of the twins! This discovery surprised Jennifer and led to the birth of another idea. When she first adopted the child, Jennifer did not understand Chinese, and only the staff in charge of the formalities would explain the process in a few words of English.

So even if someone had told her that the girl was one of the twins, she wouldn't have been able to understand.

If Audrey really has a twin sister and finds her, won't it just fulfill Audrey's dream of "wanting a sister"?

02 By chance, the twin secret in the old newspaper

When Jennifer thought of this, she called her husband, and the two made up their minds to find Audrey's twin sisters before the "holiday" arrived.

The easiest way to do this is to find the head of the welfare home and apply to them for the adoption records of the twins. And as they expected, the archive is still intact on the welfare institute's website.

Opening the page, Jennifer was surprised to find that one of the other twins had been adopted by an American couple.

Originally, they were thinking of going to China again, but they didn't expect to save this trip. It has to be said that the fates of the sisters are almost identical, which also provides the necessary conditions for their reunion across a decade.

Audrey's sister, born only a few minutes later than her. About a month after Audrey was adopted by the Jenife family, her sister was also adopted by a couple from the United States. The couple brought their sister to the United States and named her Grace, and Grace settled in the United States.

In order to ensure that it will not cause embarrassment, Jennifer feels that it is better to "see the adultery" of the other party's network account first, saving a lot of trouble to find the wrong person there. Jenife searched the family's name online and managed to find their account on a social networking site.

A woman with slight signs of age, holding a little yellow girl and a white girl. This is the first photo Jennifer saw, and this one alone is enough.

The little yellow girl was Grace, and her appearance was almost indistinguishable from Audrey's.

Excited, Jenife sent a message to the family: Did you know that the little beauty you adopted was one of the twins? Do you want them to meet?

Soon, the two families made contact, but in order to determine that the sisters were real blood relatives, they decided not to tell the two children first, and sent the DNA samples for testing to see the results.

The wait wasn't long, but Jennifer was already so excited that her palms were sweating.

When the doctor told them with a relaxed look that the DNA test of the two men was determined to be related by blood, Jenife breathed a long sigh of relief, and she immediately photographed the report and sent it to another family, and discussed with them when to let them meet.

The adopter's name was Scott, and the family had been to China once a decade ago, and after playing in China for a while, they took Grace back to the United States and never had the opportunity to go to China again. As a result, Grace did not have a chance to see her biological parents again.

In fact, the Scotts found the newspaper with the twin adoption advertisement early on, but they did not recognize Chinese.

Although I saw the advertising photos of the twins, I didn't realize that the twins were all sent to a welfare home. So although the Scotts kept the newspaper, the family didn't know about it.

When the Scotts told Grace the news, Grace was so excited that she thought they were joking with her, but looking at the picture and the appraisal report, she cried straight out.

The two families originally wanted to meet with their children, but the Scotts lived in Washington State, a full 1,500 miles from Wisconsin, where the Jenifes are located, equivalent to the distance from Beijing to Shenzhen. It is really difficult for such a large group of people to cross such a long distance to meet each other.

Therefore, the two families decided to let the children "meet online" first, let the sisters talk through video calls, and then discuss the meeting.

03 Thousand miles to see, separated for ten years is still like one person

Early in the morning, Audrey stood in front of the computer, waiting for Grace's call invitation. After the camera was turned on, Audrey felt like she was looking in the mirror, and the girl in the video call looked exactly like herself, with eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth, even her hairstyle and the black-rimmed glasses she wore.

According to the couples of the two families, the clothes they wore, the combed hairstyles and the glasses they wore were all selected by themselves, and the family members did not interfere.

I have to let people feel the traction in this darkness, so that the two sisters who have been separated since childhood and have never seen in their memories still retain many tacit understandings after ten years of being cultivated separately through two completely different families.

During the conversation, Grace and Audrey also discovered much in common with each other. In their wardrobes, the most stored is a shirt with plaid, even in the cold winter, you have to wear such a shirt in a down jacket to feel comfortable. Their favorite foods are the same, cheese and cream are their favorites.

Both the Jennifers and Scotts made a special record of their children's growth, covering a wide range of things, not only their learning situation from childhood to adulthood, physical health, some entertainment experiences, but also many details. And putting Grace and Audrey's records together is as similar as "copying homework"!

Since childhood, the two couples have taken photos of the two sisters separately. No matter what age group, the people in the photos taken are exactly the same, even the classic forked waist movements.

If it is said that it is the twins of an ordinary family, it is very similar in the photo, but the two sisters do not even know that they are one of the twins, and this instinctive performance makes people feel more rare and precious.

The two sisters also had very similar grades in school, and they were both excellent mathematical experts. Even the results of the exams from childhood to adulthood are very similar, although there will be some fluctuations, but the overall is still very similar.

They were abandoned by their biological parents, in fact, it was precisely because of the congenital heart disease on their bodies, and the biological parents could not afford the cost of drug treatment and surgery for their two children, so they had to make this decision. After being adopted, due to their serious heart disease, although they have undergone surgery, they have not been completely cured.

But Grace and Audrey are very strong children, and although they occasionally suffer some pain and have to take their medication on time, they never complain about their illness.

In fact, choosing to adopt and raise such a child is not an easy task for the Jenifes and Scotts.

According to China's relevant regulations, Americans want to adopt a Chinese child, the handling fee and adoption fee combined between 20,000 and 300 million US dollars, although the procedures are complicated, but compared to other countries are already very good.

The upfront handling fees and adoption fees for adopting a child in the United States alone range from $100,000 to $150,000, and can take years to wait.

The adoption fee is a big expense, and after receiving it at home, you also need to operate on Grace and Audrey, as well as prepare for follow-up medication and conditioning. This money is still affordable for two families, but it is not so easy, after all, both families are ordinary working families, and the annual income is not too high.

Audrey has three older brothers and Grace has two older brothers and an older sister. Both of them were adopted and the youngest children in the family, and now they have found "sisters" of similar age, which is naturally very happy.

Of course, the two also involuntarily talked about their heart disease, but they did not shy away from anything, but confidently and optimistically said that they would encourage each other and support each other to live well.

They do the same, although they have heart disease and can't do high-risk, high-stimulation exercise, but daily running, swimming, cycling, are their favorite. The two children are also the most famous "sports stars" in the family, which surprises the two couples.

After the phone call, the two sisters reluctantly said goodbye. But every morning after that, they would call to share yesterday's experiences and cheer up the day. Knowing that there is a time difference of about two hours between Washington and Wisconsin, Grace has to get up early every day to overcome the jet lag.

Just calling for a long time, it is not as good as actually seeing each other and hugging once to make people more excited. So they have been looking forward to the opportunity to meet, and the couple of the two families has also worked hard for this.

They not only want their two children to meet, but also to meet "openly", through news platforms, online media and other platforms to encourage more people with their own experiences.

So both families are waiting for an opportunity, which is more than a month.

In January 2017, they were finally reunited on the "Good Morning America" show. "Good Morning America" is one of ABC's signature shows that specializes in sharing interesting news, conversations and stories. The show's ratings were high, so the debut of the two sisters received millions of people's attention.

When the sisters who have been separated for ten years meet each other, hug each other tightly, and feel each other's real body temperature and heartbeat, this dreamlike feeling can't help but make people feel complicated heartache and relief. They cried for a long time on the show scene, and the audience was also moved to choke.

Someone hugged the sisters together, made a short video posted on Facebook, just a few hours of hits exceeded one million, tens of thousands of netizens have left messages congratulating the sisters on the reunion, many people also shared their experiences with family and friends reunion.

04 Twin Status: Travel together every year and try to go to the same university

Time flies, and 5 years have passed since the twin sisters met. They have also grown from eleven or twelve-year-old children to big girls who are about to become adults, how are they doing now?

Since the two families met at Good Morning America, they have agreed to arrange a trip for their two children for at least one week or more a year. Every summer vacation, they would take the whole family to a place that had been discussed in advance to take a vacation together, so that the two sisters could be reunited for a good time.

In five years, the two sisters had seen each other nearly ten times, and had been together for more than two months. Although the two families are more than a thousand miles apart, they still overcome many difficulties and maintain a stable frequency of seeing each other after all.

Now both girls have grown up and grown taller, becoming generous girls. They go to school and live at their respective homes, and insist on exchanging their experiences and ideas through video calls and text chats every day.

Now that they are about to finish their high school studies, they are about to enter college. Together, they plan to work hard to learn knowledge, accumulate practice, and strive to be admitted to the same university and become true sisters. It may be a difficult step, but they are still working on it.

For now, a peaceful life is more suitable for them, and too much attention will affect their concentration on their learning tasks.

As their minds mature, they become more and more aware of how difficult and painful it was for their biological mothers to choose to give up on themselves, after all, if there is even a glimmer of hope, who is willing to give up their own flesh and bones? Staying in their own home, the two sisters probably died early because they could not be cured. Only when you are sent to a welfare home and adopted by a well-meaning person can you survive.

So after knowing the truth of the matter, they did not complain about their biological mother, but instead desperately wanted to find her and tell her that we are living well now. Jenife is also trying to find information, looking forward to the day when she can take the twins back to China and meet her biological mother.

Love knows no borders, no race, no distance. The willingness of the Jennifers and Scotts to take two children with congenital heart disease, adopt them back as their own, and raise them for more than a decade is admirable.

And these two sisters can still get together in the dark after a completely different decade, which is even more wonderful and makes people feel extremely emotional. This may be the power of family affection, not far from the mountains and seas, not with the years as long.

Reference sources

1, TwinSisters Superatedat Birth – ABCNEWS

2, the twins were adopted separately 10 years ago, and 10 years later, a hug touched the United States: there is a kind of love called the underworld - the World Wide Web