Social media is not only connecting strangers but also long-lost family members. That's how Georgian siblings Ano Sartania and Tako Khvitia, both 21, were reunited in 2021 after 19 years of separation.
That year, Sartania's friend sent her a TikTok video of a woman whose hair was dyed blue and asked her why she had colored her mane. Sartania told her pal it wasn't her, although they looked alike.
Curious about her doppelgänger, Sartania reached out to the blue-haired woman, who turned out to be Khvitia. When they finally talked on the phone, Sartania realized Khvitia was her long-lost twin sister. They met in Tbilisi, where they were reunited.
The siblings got separated following a home birth in the small village of Kirtskhi on 20 June 2002 when their mother, Aza Shoni, slipped into a coma and her husband, Gocha Gakharia, sold each twin to different families, believing they were not his.
According to the New York Post, Sartania went to live in Tbilisi, while Khvitia was raised some 160 miles away in the western city of Zugdidi.
Since reuniting, the twins have been doing things together, including celebrating their common birthday.
Meanwhile, twin girls were recently born in Croatia under unusual circumstances. Although twins, they have different birthdays due to a two-minute gap in their delivery, according to a news report that did not name the babies and their parents.
The first twin was born at 11:59 p.m. on 31 December 2023 and the second at 12:01 a.m. on 1 January 2024, Croatia Week reported.
Coincidentally, the twins were born at the Split University Hospital in the city of Split.
With AFP