Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters
Theirs is a story straight out of a Bollywood film. Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered the…
Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered they are biological sisters.
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, born in the early 1980s, were adopted from two different orphanages in the western Indian city of Mumbai within months of their birth.
When they first met in their early teens at an event hosted by the adoption agency their parents had used, they were struck by the uncanny similarities in their appearance and mannerisms.
"All the adopted children were brought together to hang out and bond and have dinner."
Both Meena and Minal were with friends who noticed how similar they looked.
"And I was like, 'Oh my God, she has my nose! We have the same laugh'.
"At dinner, I kept looking at her the whole time," Meena told the BBC from her home in the Netherlands.
The following day, the girls exchanged telephone numbers and addresses and promised to keep in touch.
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