These two friends and co-workers were always teased for looking like siblings. When the resemblance became too uncanny, a DNA test finally revealed that they were actually biological sisters.
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Aged 32 and 31, Cassandra Madison and Julia Tinetti became fast friends when they met at their job.
They became so close that people started mistaking them for actual sisters. They soon realized that both of them came from adopted families and that both of them were of Dominican origin.
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In fact, they even had the same tattoo of the Dominican flag done. The tattoo is what connected them in the first place.
These facts seemed to be more than coincidence so they finally decided to take a 23andme test.
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The two girls loved the confusion and started pretending to be sisters as a joke. They would wear matching clothes so people would mistake them for one another.
"We had an event that we went to that we dressed alike -- our socks matched, our sneakers matched, our sunglasses matched our shorts were black -- she made us tank tops that said that she was the big sister and I was the little sister," Tinetti said. "We kind of just went with it like as a joke. It was not serious at all."
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At one point they compared adoption papers but the names of the mother on the paperwork were different.
"So, we said, 'OK, never mind, forget it, then we're not,' and we just moved on with our lives," Madison said. "But we still played into us being sisters even though we knew that we weren't. Well, we thought we weren't."
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After Madison moved away, she kept in touch with her sister through Facebook.
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Madison had always been curious about her heritage so for Christmas, her adoptive mother gifted her a DNA test kit.
She soon found out that she had more siblings in the Dominican Republic, seven to be exact. Her biological mother had since died but she managed to meet her father.
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When it turned out at Tinetti was part of the family as well, they were overjoyed. She has also managed to keep in touch with her Dominic family and found the experience to be ‘quite shocking’
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"It was like seeing myself in these people," she said. "It's like, 'OK, well, now I know where I come from,' you know what I mean? It has always been a mystery for me."
