Orphaned sisters reunite by chance after 40 years

In July, the New York Times reported the case of two pairs of Colombian identical twins who were mixed up at birth due to a hospital error and raised by separate families as fraternal twins, only to be reunited at the age of 24 after friends spotted the uncanny resemblance.

Sweet story: Orphaned sisters reunite while working on same floor at #Sarasota hospital.

Two orphaned South Korean sisters were recently reunited by chance in Florida after they were hired by the same hospital 40 years after their adoptions by different sets of American parents.

According to a report via the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Holly Hoyle O’Brien, 46 was adopted by an American couple in 1978 when she was 9-years-old.

They both had “abandonment” listed on their orphanage paperwork – and had been adopted by American families.

They reunited this year after both were hired just months apart at Sarasota’s Doctors Hospital.

Two women working in the same hospital in Florida were stunned to discover that they were in fact sisters after doing a DNA test. And the orphanage where O’Brien was adopted had no record of her sister.

O’Brien noticed that Hughes, whose Korean name is Eun-sook, shared the same Korean last name as hers and also had the same history of being adopted by an American family.

“But in my heart, I knew…”

Remarkably DNA tests confirmed their suspicious this summer, leading to the lost sisters overjoy.

“One of the patients told me there was another nurse, named Meagan, who was from Korea”. The sister recalls the transition to her home in Alexandria, Va., being bumpy, both culturally and linguistically, but the environment was nurturing. “I was trembling, I was so excited, I was ecstatic”.

One night Holly woke up in tears: ‘I said my daddy died, I have a sister, we need to find her.’ Holly’s mother contacted the orphanage.

Even Hollywood couldn’t concoct a script as wonderful as the true-life story of sisters Holly O’Brien and Meagan Hughes.