Nearly forty years after 2 orphaned sisters were separated as children in South Korea they had an astonishing chance reunion after being hired by the same Florida hospital.
Holly Hoyle O'Brien, 46, born Pok-nam Shin, said she had searched for her younger half-sister for most of her life after being adopted by a family in the U.S as a little girl in the late 70s.
It wasn't until earlier this year, when they were both hired at the same Sarasota hospital, that they became instant friends and suspicious of their powerful bond.
"I was in shock. I was numb. I have a sister," Meagan Hughes, 44, born Eun-Sook Shin, told the Herald Tribune of a DNA test's remarkable results this summer.
Both women spent some of their earliest years in an orphanage after Hughes' mother ran off with her in the middle of the night, leaving O'Brien with their alcoholic father. Not long later, O'Brien's dad was killed by a train leaving her alone in the world, they said.
Both girls eventually wound up in orphanages with O'Brien adopted by a family in Arlington, Va., and Hughes taken in by a family in Kingston, N.Y. within two years of one another.

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