Ridiculous Lifetime Screenplay Scenario Happens To Sisters Separated 40 Years Ago
The Guardian has a strong contender for the least likely thing to happen during any of our lifetimes: two orphaned sisters, separated in Korea 40 years ago, were reunited when they discovered each other working the same shift...at the same hospital...in Florida.
These women had not seen each other since the early 1970s! When they were five- and three-years-old!
Eun-Sook—now Meaghan Hughes—was taken by her mother from her alcoholic father as a three-year-old. Her older sister, Pok-nam Shin—now Holly Hoyle O’Brien (I swear I am not making this up)—was left in the care of the father.
When the father died, O’Brien ended up in an orphanage in Pusan, 200 miles (335km) south of the capital, Seoul. In 1978, aged 9, she was adopted by an American couple who gave her the new name and took her to be part of their family in the American state of Virginia.
Her half sister, Hughes, also has memories of a Korean orphanage but recalls little of her biological mother or what happened to her. In 1976 she was also adopted by an American family, growing up in New York state, about 300 miles (480km) from her sister.
So, OK, they were separated as tiny children, orphaned separately, separately adopted, renamed, and moved to different American states. And then decades passed. And then, randomly as hell, they were both hired to work the same shift on the same floor at the same hospital, within three months of each other, in goddamn Sarasota. Where they became fast friends.
After discovering a number of startling coincidences in their histories (I’ll say!!!), the friends decided to take a chance and have DNA testing done.
The match was positive.
“I’m like, this can’t be,” O’Brien told the paper. “I was trembling, I was so excited. I was ecstatic.”
Her half sister was just as surprised: “When I heard from Holly, my first reaction was like, ‘Oh my god.’ I was in shock, I was numb. I have a sister,” Hughes said.
Who wrote this dang story? No one is going to believe this! No, not even on the Lifetime Network. I demand a rewrite!
