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Unbelievable story/ They were close friends for decades, DNA test revealed they were sisters

2026-09-13 17:27:08Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Unbelievable story/ They were close friends for decades, DNA test revealed they
The two women first met when they were teenagers.

Two women born in India, adopted by different Dutch families and raised next to each other in the Netherlands, have discovered after decades that they are biological sisters.

Meena Geltink, 43, and Minal Tijssen, 44, were born in the early 1980s in Mumbai and adopted from two different orphanages just a few months after birth. The adoptive families were unaware of their biological relationship.

The two first met when they were teenagers, at an event organized by the agency through which the adoptions were made. The first meeting was unusual. Their friends immediately noticed the great resemblance between the two girls and asked them to look at each other in the mirror. Meena remembers that at that moment she noticed the same nose and the similar way of laughing. She says that during dinner she could not stop looking at Minal, as the similarity between them was striking.

Unbelievable story/ They were close friends for decades, DNA test revealed they

The next day they exchanged phone numbers and addresses. Although they had no idea they were biologically related, they immediately developed a friendly relationship. For years they exchanged letters and called each other "sister," because that's how they felt.

They talked about school, friends, boys, going out, sports and music. They even discovered that they had the same favorite band, the Backstreet Boys. After about 15 years, however, contact between them ceased. Minal had moved to France, while Meena, who had just become a mother for the first time, had become increasingly involved in family life.

In 2017, Meena attended a gathering of adoptees from India and heard about DNA testing. She decided to take the test, but found no match and later deleted the app from her phone.

In April of this year, Minal also took a DNA test while visiting her parents in the Netherlands. A month later, on May 20, she sent Meena a message on Facebook: “Do you remember me?”

Minal attached a screenshot of the test results to the message.

Unbelievable story/ They were close friends for decades, DNA test revealed they

Meena reinstalled the app, but she was so excited and nervous that she says she typed her password incorrectly several times before logging in. The result was clear: the test showed that the two women were a complete genetic match, meaning they were biological sisters.

“I cried,” Meena said. The fact that they had called each other “sister” since adolescence already seemed like an intuition that had proven correct. Minal, meanwhile, did not immediately realize that the match in the test was the girl he had known about 30 years ago. It was only after seeing her photos on social media that he realized it was Meena.

“We were friends before we were sisters,” she said. “We were sisters all along, but we didn’t know it.”

In August, the two women met for the first time after discovering their biological connection. The meeting was incredibly emotional, with hugs, tears, and laughter. They even took their first selfie as sisters.

Meena, who is now a mother of three, described the meeting as a “homecoming.” She said that for years they had both felt a void in their hearts and that now they felt as if a missing part of their lives had finally returned.

Unbelievable story/ They were close friends for decades, DNA test revealed they

Minal lives in France with her partner and two sons. Meena lives in the Netherlands. Both are now trying to better understand their shared family history and discover more about their origins.

The women's story, which begins with two babies separated in two different orphanages in Mumbai and continues with two girls who became friends without knowing they were related, truly reads like a movie script. After more than three decades, a DNA test confirmed what they had felt since their first meeting: the bond between them had been much deeper than friendship.

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