As children get older, finding the perfect Christmas gift gets harder and harder for parents, which is why one Wisconsin mom got creative when it came to her 10-year-old daughter’s present.
Mom Jennifer Doering wanted to give her adopted daughter, Audrey, a meaningful gift this year and decided it would be amazing if she could find and give her daughter her ‘finding ad’, the advertisement from a newspaper in China from the day she was placed in the orphanage.
Jennifer and her husband Tom spent hours online searching various websites and eventually reached out to Research-China.org, a Chinese website that finds information on adopted children, to buy a copy of her finding ad. Jennifer saw they also had a photo of her daughter as a baby in the orphanage and paid for a copy of it as well. When they finally arrived, she was shocked to see two babies in the picture.
Jennifer did some more investigating, and two days later, discovered Audrey’s secret twin named Gracie who had been adopted by Nicole and Scott Rainsberry in Richland, Washington. Jennifer and Tom reached out to the Rainsberry family, and when they saw a recent picture of Gracie, they couldn’t even tell the difference between the two girls.
And after talking, they realized the girls had been adopted on the same day, both were born with congenital heart defects, were placed in the same orphanage, had estimated birth dates just days apart, and both required emergency heart surgery shortly after arriving in the United States.
Shortly after digesting the shocking news, both couples told their daughters, who recently met on FaceTime and haven’t stopped talking since. And while they haven’t found out the results of a DNA test yet, they are certain the two girls are twins.
Despite ten years without contact, the girls have the same quirks and mannerisms. “In our minds, there’s no question,” Nicole Rainsberry said. Now the families are planning to meet in person. “My Christmas gift to her ended up being a little bigger than I thought,” said Jennifer.
Watch the entire video below to see how this mom discovered her daughter was actually an identical twin.
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