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Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from orphanages in Mumbai during the 1980s and raised in the Netherlands. A DNA test revealed the two women, who had been friends for decades, were biological sisters. The adoption records from their time in India had not indicated they were related.
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