Well, if this doesn’t make you reach for the tissues, mamas, we don’t know what will.
After being adopted by two different families as infants, 10-year-old identical twins Audrey Doering and Gracie Rainsberry came face-to-face for the first time on Good Morning America this week, and, needless to say, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
To start off with, the show explains how the two girls were both born in China before Gracie was adopted by a family from Washington and Audrey by a family in Wisconsin.
The problem? Neither of the two families had any idea that their daughter had a twin until one day, Audrey’s mum Jennifer Doering came across a photo of her daughter sitting on her foster mom’s knee — next to a baby who looked exactly like her.
“As soon as I had that picture, I was desperate to find out … who that other child was,” Doering explains. “Oh, it was unbelievable. I’m like, ‘How?’ I mean, this is stuff you read about. And how, how could it really be that there are two of them?”
After contacting an investigator, Doering was able to uncover the fact that her daughter had a twin sister also in the US— and thanks to Facebook, was able to find and get in touch with Gracie’s mom, Nicole Rainsberry.
The rest, as they say, is history. One adorable history, that is.
But, mamas, if you think just reading about this is pulling at your heart-strings, wait until you see the two girls meeting for the first time – and witnessing the innate bond they obviously share.
The two girls quickly discover they have a lot in common. Apart from just looking like a mirror image of each other, Gracie and Audrey also found they liked the same food, sports and TV shows – and both had suffered from the same heart condition growing up.
“It’s very overwhelming,” Gracie said.
“It felt like there was something messing, so it was like, now it’s complete,” Audrey added.
Now; make sure you reach for the tissues before you hit ‘play:’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rit0vLBtSXI
