FIND OUT THEY HAD A LOT MORE IN
COMMON THAN THEY THOUGHT.
FROM THE MOMENT 32-YEAR-OLD
KATHY MADISON AND 31-YEAR-OLD
JULIA TENETTI MET WORKING AT A
RESTAURANT IN 2013, FRIENDSHIP
CAME EASY.
>> IT WAS LIKE NATURAL.
IT WASNT AWKWARD.
IT JUST LIKE WE HIT IT OFF
LITERALLY RIGHT AWAY.
>> I HAVE THE DOMINICAN FLAG
TATTOOED ON MY ARM.
JULIA WALKS BY AND SAYS, OH, IM
DOMINICAN TOO.
IM LIKE, OKAY, COOL.
>> JULIA, AS I UNDERSTAND IT,
YOU ALSO HAD THE DOMINICAN FLAG
TATTOOED.
>> I DO.
I HAVE IT TATTOOED ON MY BACK.
>> TURNS OUT, THE TWO ALSO HAD
SOMETHING ELSE IN COMMON.
>> IM ADOPTED FROM THERE AND
SHES LIKE WHAT?
SHE WAS LIKE ME TOO!
I WAS LIKE OH, MY GOD, THATS SO
COOL.
>> THEY OFTEN JOKED ABOUT BEING
SISTERS, EVEN DOUBLE CHECKING
THEIR ADOPTION PAPERS, BUT
NOTHING LINED UP.
>> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CRAZY, YOU
KNOW, IF IT DID END UP BEING
THAT IT MATCHED UP, BUT WE WERE
LIKE, ALL RIGHT, THAT WAS COOL
WHILE IT LASTED.
>> JULIA, HAPPY WITH HER ADOPTED
LIFE, NEVER SOUGHT OUT HER
BIOLOGICAL FAMILY.
BUT KATHY DID, FINDING HERS
THROUGH A DNA TEST IN 2018 AND
REUNITING WITH THEM IN THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
LAST YEAR MOLLY, A CHILDHOOD
FRIEND OF JULIAS, WHO WAS ALSO
ADOPTED FROM THE DR, NOTICED
SOMETHING SPECIAL.
YOU SAW SOME PICTURES ON
FACEBOOK AND YOU WERE LIKE, HUH,
THIS IS CURIOUS.
>> YES.
I SAW THAT CASSANDRA WAS
CONNECTED WITH THE BIOLOGICAL
FAMILY THAT I THOUGHT I WAS
CONNECTED WITH BECAUSE I HAD HER
NAMES OF HER FAMILY ON MY
PAPERWORK.
>> MOLLY TOOK A DNA TEST,
THINKING SHE MIGHT BE CASSIES
SISTER, BUT HE WASNT.
THE THREE WOMEN STARTED
SUSPECTING A MIX-UP BECAUSE
MOLLY AND JULIA WERE ADOPTED ON
THE SAME DAY.
SO WHAT IF THEIR PAPERS HAD BEEN
ACCIDENTALLY SWITCHED?
>> I HOPPED IN MY CAR AND DROVE
TO JULIA WITH A 23ANDME KIT IN
MY CAR FROM VIRGINIA TO
CONNECTICUT AND SHOVED IT IN HER
FACE AND TOLD HER SHE HAD TO DO
IT.
>> AND YOU OPENED UP THE RESULTS
AND THEN WHAT?
>> I OPENED IT AND IM LIKE,
WAIT, LET ME CLOSE IT OUT AND
BRING IT BACK UP TO MAKE SURE
THIS IS REAL.
AND THEN IM LIKE TEXTING
CASSIE, IM CALLING HER AND IM
LIKE YOU NEED TO CALL ME,
RESULTS ARE IN, RESULTS ARE IN.
FINALLY SHE CALLS ME BACK AND I
SAID, CASSIE, I AM IN FACT YOUR
BIOLOGICAL SISTER.
[ LAUGHING ]
>> BOTH YOU HAVE DID VALIDATE
THAT FEELING THAT YOU SORT OF
ALREADY HAD?
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
IT WAS AWESOME.
>> SO JULIA, WHATS IT BEEN LIKE
TO RECONNECT WITH YOUR
BIOLOGICAL FAMILY?
>> ITS VERY OVERWHELMING
BECAUSE THERES A LOT OF THEM.
EVERYBODY IS EXCITED, SO
EVERYONE IS LIKE I WANT TO SEE,
I WANT TO TALK TO HER.
>> I WAS THERE FOR THREE WEEKS
SO MY FATHER EVERY DAY WAS HOWS
JULIA, WHERES JULIA.
>> THE CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU
HAD WITH YOUR FATHER ABOUT
PUTTING YOU UP FOR ADOPTION,
WHAT HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS
BEEN LIKE?
>> MY FATHER JUST CRIED A LOT
AND KEPT APOLOGIZING.
OUR OLDER BROTHER WAS REALLY,
REALLY SICK WHEN HE WAS BORN AND
THEN I CAME.
MY DAD AND MY MOM HAD THE TALK
ABOUT PUTTING ME UP FOR ADOPTION
ADOPTION, SO THAT WAS THEIR
DECISION.
IVE NEVER BEEN ANGRY WITH THEM.
>> YOU CANT BE MAD AT SOMEBODY
FOR WANTING TO GIVE THEIR CHILD
THE BEST LIFE.
NOW THE FACT THAT WE CAN CONNECT
WITH THEM IS VERY, VERY SPECIAL
FOR US.
>> WHATS THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE
BEEN LIKE FINDING OUT THAT
YOURE SISTERS?
>> I MEAN ITS REALLY EXCITING.
I MEAN LIKE TO BE HONEST WITH
YOU, WE REALLY THOUGHT THIS
COULD BE A POSSIBILITY.
BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP HASNT
CHANGED.
WE DONT TREAT EACH OTHER ANY
DIFFERENT.
>> BOTH OF US FEEL LIKE SOMEONE
IS GOING TO KNOCK ON OUR DOOR
AND BE LIKE JUST KIDDING.
>> ITS AMAZING.
AND THEY WERE WORKING TOGETHER
AT A RESTAURANT.
>> WHAT HAPPENED TO CASSANDRA.
>> YOUVE GOT TO GO BACK AND
WATCH.
ITS KIND OF HARD TO FOLLOW BUT
YOUVE GOT TO GO WATCH.
>> AND WHAT ABOUT MOLLY?
>> BY THE WAY, MOLLY IS HAVING
TWINS, THEIR FRIEND MOLLY, WHO
HELPED THEM FIGURE THIS OUT
THROUGH THE DNA TEST.
SHE FOUND OUT THAT HER OWN LONG
LOST SISTER, A TWIN, LIVING JUST
40 MINUTES AWAY.
>> GET OUT.
>> SERIOUSLY.
YOU CANT MAKE IT UP.
>> IT SEEMS TO BE A WHOLE HALF
HOUR SPECIAL.
>> I THINK SOMEONE IS WORKING ON
THAT.
>> OKAY, GOOD.
WOW, THAT IS FASCINATING.
>> YOU MIGHT HAVE A LONG LOST
SIBLING OUT THERE.
HAVE YOU CHECKED?
>> I MIGHT.
>> HAVE YOU CHECKED?