Twin babies, adopted into different families in northern China at just 10 days old, coincidentally became best friends 17 years later, unaware they were actually related.
According to the South China Morning Post newspaper, the girls were given up for adoption by their biological parents, who couldn’t afford to raise them. However, they stipulated that both girls should grow up in the same city in Hebei province.
Living just miles apart in separate families, Zhang Guoxin and Hai Chao had no knowledge of each other’s existence. In a remarkable twist of fate, they befriended each other when Hai’s classmate noticed a shop assistant at a local clothing store who looked just like her. Curious, Hai visited the store and met Zhang for the first time, feeling an immediate connection.
“We became best friends and talked about everything,” Hai said.
They soon discovered not only their striking resemblance but also a series of uncanny similarities: they shared the same birthday, similar hairstyles, identical voices, the same taste in food, and both had “narrowly survived serious illness at around 100 days old.”
Although the adoptive families knew the girls were twins, they had kept it a secret, fearing they might be taken back by their biological parents. However, 14 months into the girls’ friendship, both families finally agreed to reveal that the now best friends were, in fact, sisters.
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