Although coincidences are extremely probable in our daily lives and are unavoidable from a statistical point of view, there are certain events that happen that simply are too rare to be considered a coincidence and many believe that this improbable chain of events is the result of fate.
And if you are a person who does not believe in fate, you may change your mind after reading this story.
It is only natural for any parent who wishes to adopt a child to go through a certain number of procedures before they are deemed qualified to care for a child. Some couples who choose to adopt a child from outside the country may or may not even know the identity of their prospective child before they choose to adopt them.
They say that blood is thicker than water. But this proverb is more than just words to a couple from Missouri named Staci and James Maneage.
Their amazing story started when they adopted 10-year-old Elliana from a Chinese orphanage.
James and Staci have been happily married for 23 years and live in the small town of Weldon Spring, Missouri.
At the beginning of their relationship, Staci and James were unable to have children of their own. But miraculously, that changed a few years later.
The couple was fortunate to welcome sons Matthew, Kyle, and Andrew into the world. But before their boys were born, James had promised his wife that they’d adopt a child if they could. And Staci never forgot that pledge.
The couple from Weldon Spring, Missouri caught wind of an orphan child who needed a forever home from China. Her name was Elliana.
Elliana who was 10 years old at the time, was diagnosed with a health condition related to brain disorders. Due to this fact, many prospective families have refrained from adopting the child and that made Staci and James want to help her even more, therefore, they decided they wanted to adopt her.
When they got to know of Elliana’s situation, they decided they wanted her to be a part of their family.
It was not long before Elliana was welcomed into the Maneage family as she was promptly adopted and brought to Weldon Springs, Missouri. Staci and James did not realize that there was another family nearby who had decided to adopt a child from China as they have done. The other foster child’s name was Kinley.
What is interesting about 7-year-old Kinley was that she had the same brain disorder as Elliana.
Both families live near each other in the same neighborhood and often go to the same church. After bumping into each other a couple of times, Elliana and Kinley became friends. Although they were both adopted from completely different parts of China, both of them have a lot in common including their facial features.
They became extremely close almost as if they were sisters.
Furthermore, Elliana and Kinley had developed such a close bond that many would believe they were actually related. This raised the curiosities of both sets of parents.
Both sets of parents sent their adopted daughter’s DNA in for testing.
The families then agreed that they would take a sample of their daughter’s DNA and send it for testing. They were not expecting much as the probability of the two girls being biological siblings is next to impossible as they came from different parts of a country with over a billion people.
When they received the results, however, both sets of parents looked at each other with their mouths on the floor. The results confirmed that these two girls were siblings. They had 99.9% similarities in their DNA.
It seemed as though fate had found a way to reunite these two long-lost siblings in a totally different country. What’s more, is that they happened to be adopted by families who lived nearby one another and who happen to go to the same church where they would regularly bump into each other. What started out as a bond of friendship turned out to be a bond between two biological sisters.
It is moments and circumstances such as this that would make one believe in a higher order. Call it what you will; be it divine intervention, fate, or destiny, you have to agree that this is simply remarkable.
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Source: AWM