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Best Friends for Decades - Until a DNA Test Revealed They Were Sisters

DNA results showed the women were a 100% match, confirming they share the same biological mother and father after years apart.

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The two Indian-born women in their 40s, were adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands.

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Two women, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, who were adopted from different orphanages in India and taken to the Netherlands, met again years later. A DNA test conducted 30 years later revealed that they were biological sisters, as they had called each other sisters since childhood.

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Two Indian women, in their 1940s, who were adopted by different families when they were babies and grew up close to each other in the Netherlands, discovered that they were biological sisters. This news was posted via the news website Cedarnews. For more breaking news and exclusive reports, they visited our official website.

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BBC News broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Saturday, September 12, 2026.
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