DNA Test Reunites 2 Adopted Dutch Women as Biological Sisters After 30 Years
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Updated · SportsChosun · Aug 12
DNA Test Reunites 2 Adopted Dutch Women as Biological Sisters After 30 Years
3 articles · Updated · SportsChosun · Aug 12
Summary
April DNA results led Minal Thiessen, 44, to discover that a close friend she had met in 1996 was actually her biological sister, Mena Geltingk, 43.
Both women were adopted from India and raised by separate families in the Netherlands, living about 130 kilometers apart while staying unaware of their family tie.
The match only clicked after Thiessen saw the testing app alert, found Geltingk on social media and recognized the name and photos from their teenage friendship.
In a recent reunion in 's-Hertogenbosch, the sisters embraced, cried and took selfies, then began talking for hours daily to make up for lost time.
For Geltingk, a mother of three, the discovery answered a long-running search for biological family and felt like finding a missing piece of a puzzle.