The Shin sisters in Florida said that they never imagined they’d be working in the same profession, let alone the same hospital.
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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, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.
In 1978, aged 9, she was adopted by an American couple who gave her the new name and took her to be part of their family in the American state of Virginia.
Eun-Sook-now Meaghan Hughes-was taken by her mother from her alcoholic father as a three-year-old.
Similarly, Hughes was adopted by an American family in 1976 – and grew up in New York State, a few 300 miles away from her sister.
When Meagan Hughes and Holly Hoyle O’Brien began working the same shift on the fourth floor of a hospital in Sarasota, Florida, they became fast friends. Two months later Hughes was hired.
The two instantly connected and soon the similarities started adding up, until the pair confirmed their suspicions by taking DNA tests this summer, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Even Hollywood couldn’t concoct a script as wonderful as the true-life story of sisters Holly O’Brien and Meagan Hughes.
Her adoptive mother contacted the orphanage, but they had no record of a biological sister.
“But I’m glad I joined in this field instead of something else”, Holly said.
They ordered DNA kits to test whether they were related and the lab results came back positive.
She said: “In my heart, I knew, I knew she was out there somewhere”. “But I was with a patient”. 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”.
“Like, whatever I’ve done, I must’ve done something good in my life”, O’Brien told the newspaper.
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“When I heard from Holly, my first reaction was like, ‘Oh my god.’ I was in shock, I was numb”.
