Childhood friends discover they're sisters after DNA test | The Moment
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· collected 2026-08-21
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Summary
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, two childhood friends, have discovered they are sisters through a DNA test. The friends were adopted separately as infants by different families in the Netherlands after being born in India. No specific numbers or details about their adoption are provided. Their discovery was revealed when Meena took a DNA test.
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Two women, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, who had been friends since childhood, discovered that they are biological sisters after taking a DNA test. They were both adopted from India by different families in the Netherlands decades ago, but the test revealed their unexpected familial connection.
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Childhood friends discover they're sisters after DNA test | The Moment
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Meena Geltink tells The National about the moment a DNA test revealed her lifelong friend Minal Tijssen is actually her biological sister, decades after they were adopted from India by different families in the Netherlands.
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