Tearjerker! 40 Years Later Adopted Korean Sisters Meet by Coincidence

By Ligonberry Fields, BuzzVine Contributor Monday, October 19, 2015

Growing up in adopted families in the United States, Holly Hoyle O'Brien and Meagan Hughes both knew they had a long-lost sister from their native South Korea.

With one raised in Kentucky and another in Virginia, neither realized that they would find each other in Florida working in the same hospital.

Holly and Meagan met while working at the Doctors Hospital of Sarasota and, according to local media, that was where they started to piece things together.

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"The coincidences began stacking up immediately: Korea, the missing family, 'abandonment' listed on orphanage paperwork, adoption to Americans," reported Sarasota Herald Tribute.

"Holly ordered DNA kits from Canada and the orphans did mouth swabs. Holly dispatched the samples to Canada in early August. The lab results returned to Holly via email on the afternoon on Aug. 17. She was on jury duty. The match was positive."

NBC News also reported on the reunion story, about how two good friends realized that they were long-lost siblings.