Twins Adopted To Different Parents Didn’t Know About Each Other Until Now

The Letter Heard Around The World

When Samantha told her mum the news and gave her the full details, Ann immediately wrote to Elizabeth, saying: “I am writing to you as I am searching for a family connection…” When Elizabeth opened the letter from Aldershot, it didn’t take more than a few minutes for her to be on the phone with her sister in England.

Separated by the worst of circumstances for a young woman in 1936, the sisters were finally reunited through the efforts of family and also a whole lot of good luck. (I’m not sure how else you’d describe finding your sibling after all those years, with the records lost and destroyed, with the sisters located on different continents, and a bunch of moves in between — any of which might have derailed the wonderful reunion.