Twins With the Same Name Are Miraculously Reunited | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

we are celebrating siblings today this is Mia and this is also Mia the miraculous chain of events that brought these two little girls together is something that you'd only see in the movies but you're gonna see it right now take a look my daughter Mia is the sparkling jewel to family she lights up everybody's heart Holly and Doug funk lived in Illinois with their five children when they decided to adopt from China in July of 2004 they were blessed with a beautiful baby girl who had been abandoned at a textile factory as a newborn they named her Mia when I received her in my arms the day that we got her she captured my heart right away I just wanted to take her home hundreds of miles away in Florida diana and carlos ramirez were also making plans to adopt i've always dreamt of a little girl i was happy with my two boys but always felt like this emptiness like i wanted a daughter Diana says she was instantly drawn to photos of a Chinese toddler who was born with a hole in her heart for some reason that moment that I saw her something in my heart said name her Mia in October 2005 Diana and her family traveled overseas to bring home their two-year-old daughter Mia is everything to our family we don't remember what life was like without her she's just such an awesome joy Holly and Diana had never met but they both belong to the same online adoption support group last May Diana posted a message that would end up changing their lives forever so I posted that Mia was gonna be turning 3 in June and we would be taking her on the Disney cruise for her birthday when I read that I thought that's funny so I said hey Diana I have a Mia also and she's gonna be three on the thirteenth of June when she wrote back to me she said are you kidding my me is gonna be turning 3 On June 12th where was she found and so I wrote back well as the gate of a textile factory on Picon and she wrote back are you sitting down because that sounds like the location where my daughter was found please send pictures right away isn't that amazing that's amazing the Mia's moms are here Diana and Holly so tell me what happened next Diana as soon as she sent pictures and we saw the similarities I thought it was time to do DNA testing and with the help of a friend that had currently been through the same thing prior we did the testing so were you you were open to doing the testing obviously oh yeah I knew yeah there was time so tell me what you were both thinking at the time you I think you were saying that you always felt the number two yes when my husband first felt like we were supposed to adopt he felt from the Lord adopt from Asia we already had five we were done and then the Lord spoke to his heart and at the same time I got the number two and then the Lord said to me you're gonna name her Mia I never thought of the name before and I said yeah we're gonna name him yeah and you did and so were you thinking that she had it that there was another child someplace never never complete shock complete shock so the DNS DNA test said that they were siblings Wow bless you bless you sweetie why should me that they were siblings and so you then realized that you had adopted each they you each adopted or they're twins or siblings well according to the birth dates you don't know because you don't have birth parents to test again so it's difficult but according to everything it's that DNA can only tell you without a birth parent that they're siblings but yeah pretty obvious pretty obvious pretty obvious and what did you think I was in complete shock it's like an emotional roller coaster first you think wow can this really be and then you think okay now there's strings attached to this whole miracle and then you think of God's awesomeness and his hand in all this and how he perfectly orchestrated everything so you know bring them together and so when did the girls first meet who are you waving at what's over there who's waving dad Heidi okay good okay they first met in August 18th of last year's wave to her thank you thank you okay they met last year August 18th of last year he look at you oh my me and I came to Chicago and they met at O'Hare Airport for the first time well I see that Wow do they recognize each other sister do they recognize each other immediately they had never met or seen each other before but it was like an instant click so what is the story what is the story they both were left at the same place and then they were abandoned a week apart and then they were taken to Yangzhou Social Welfare Institute where I believe she was adopted she was at in nine months how old was your mute when I adapted yeah 13 month 13 months and you're me it was I she was 2 years 4 months old because she had a special need so she was there longer and to me is you thought Nia she thought Mia so we have two Mia's to see yes two sisters named Mia's and you think that this is special because it'll all grow up and hopefully go to the same college or we hope that that they'll grow up there well we live far but they talked on the phone once a week mm-hmm and we plan to visit each other a couple times a year uh-huh and hopefully grow up to be great friends great friends decide sister sighs friend thank you thank you hi youtubers I'm excited to give you an update about our own YouTube channel now you can find new videos every day they're the kind of videos it'll make you look at life differently they may even make you laugh a little bit subscribe to the own channel today and we'll see you on YouTube

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Id: geDwJPbRLZU

Length: 6min 4sec (364 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 01 2019