Chinese Twin Sisters Reunite After 10 Years, Moving American Family

Do you ever wonder if one day, there could be another you, appearing right before your eyes…

Such a thing actually happened in America.

Audrey Doering and Gracie Rainsberry are a pair of twin sisters from Jiangxi, China. However, they were separated at birth and adopted by two American families.

Until the age of 10, the two sisters reunited on 'Good Morning America,' which was their first formal meeting. The sisters embraced and cried, a truly touching scene.

It took the two sisters to reunite surprisingly thanks to a Christmas gift.

In 2016, Audrey had been constantly asking for a little sister as a Christmas gift. Her adoptive mother, Jennifer, came up with a good idea – to find a newspaper from that year with an advertisement for an abandoned baby that had to be published by orphanages when finding abandoned infants (to ensure the orphans were found and the babies were returned),

Unexpectedly, in the newspaper photo, Jennifer found not only Audrey, but also a girl who looked very much like her and a photo of her birth mother.

At that time, Jennifer and her husband realized that their 14-month-old baby was a twin, and Audrey actually had a twin sister!

Jennifer then became a 'net detective' with her husband, hoping to find Gracie before Christmas, giving her a bigger surprise.

From the orphanage, she learned that Audrey's twin sister was called Gracie, who was also adopted to America.

Therefore, according to the birth date and the congenital heart disease that Audrey carried, which was common among Asian children, the two quickly pinpointed Gracie, who was 1500 miles away in Richland, Washington.

When Jennifer flipped through their pages, she saw a picture of a girl who looked exactly like Audrey, and she was very surprised.

Although she was excited, Jennifer felt she needed to contact the other family and submit DNA samples for verification.

Jennifer contacted Gracie's adoptive parents, Scott Rainsberry, via Facebook and uploaded a video of Audrey. The adoptive mother watched the video and said, 'It's unbelievable. They not only look alike, they wear the same glasses, have the same voice, and have the same mannerisms.'

However, the adoptive mother didn't realize that these two girls were twin sisters, nor did she notice the adjacent line in the newspaper with information about twin siblings being adopted.

Gracie hadn't known she had a sister before that day, and she thought her adoptive parents were joking. When she realized it was true, she 'completely lost for words, crying.' Gracie said.

Finally, a week before Christmas, the long-separated twin sisters met on FaceTime.

The pair of twins had many magical commonalities despite never having met.

For example, they all wore black-framed glasses, liked to wear plaid shirts, liked to scare pigeons, and ate food carelessly, with cheese noodles and cream chicken pasta as their favorite dishes. And they both had congenital heart disease.

Audrey finished talking to Gracie, excitedly told her adoptive mother: 'She's me!'

Moreover, the growth backgrounds and talents of the two families were very similar.

The two families made separate records for the two sisters, and they were almost exactly the same.

The two families' adoptive families each had three siblings.

Audrey's family had three brothers, and Gracie had two brothers and a sister.

Gracie's adoptive mother, Nicole, said:

'I was surprised that mathematics was their favorite subject, although they both had heart disease, they were both outstanding athletes.'

The two sisters had countless topics to talk about, although one lived in Washington State and the other in Wisconsin, Gracie would wake up two hours early every morning to study because she wanted to talk to Audrey.

On January 10, 2017, the two finally reunited on 'Good Morning America' after 10 years of separation. Seeing each other for the first time, the two sisters ran towards each other and embraced, which was super sweet.

The video of them crying and hugging each other on Facebook was clicked millions of times.

After the reunion, Gracie said, 'I feel happy and excited from the inside out.'

Audrey said, 'It's like finding a lost piece. Now, it's back.'

Subsequently, the two families went on a week-long vacation to San Diego together, letting the two sisters try surfing and chat with each other.

They also planned to have more such trips every year, letting Audrey and Gracie grow up as sisters and grow together.

Audrey's adoptive mother, Jennifer, smiled: 'My Christmas gift was bigger than I thought.'

A pair of abandoned twins with congenital heart disease unexpectedly got adopted by loving families from across the ocean, and they unexpectedly met their twin relatives and grew up together. The probability was so small that it couldn't be smaller.

Sure enough, God closes one door, and opens another window for you.

Looking at the sisters' increasingly confident smiles, the editor wishes them a smooth future in the love of their adoptive parents and the companionship of their sister.