Ever since she was little, Hannah Raleigh wanted an older brother.
And deep down, Raleigh says he felt like he always had one.
But it wasn’t until he did a DNA test that he learned that these suspicions were true.
During an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday, Raleigh first met his lost sister, Limia Ravart, in person after an ancestry test confirmed that the two are related.
“All the thoughts went through my head at once and I panicked, but I ended up sending him a message that night, and surprisingly, like 20 minutes later, he answered me,” Raleigh said, recalling the later moments. recovered the results of his tests.
Both from China, the two adopted sisters would find homes in different cities, Raleigh in Chicago and Ravart in Montreal.
“The first sentence was like, ‘Hey, we look like biological sisters,’ and I said, ‘Oh, wait a minute,'” Ravart said.
Ravart had even forgotten about the DNA test he did a couple of years ago, which he found no match.
“I was in a state of shock, really in shock. I couldn’t sleep like all night after the email,” he said.
Since then, the two sisters have forged a friendship through video chats and discovered a number of things they have in common.
Raleigh plans to visit Ravart in Montreal next month, and they both plan to get matching tattoos.