Sisters separated at birth meet in college writing class
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2015
- One student is leaving Columbia University with much more than a diploma. Mark Albert reports from the New York City campus where Lizzie Valverde and Katy Olson accidentally learned an incredible secret.
damn they both got into columbia that’s pretty impressive lol
And also what are the odds that they both got in :O
@Ace Anime lmaooo
Oh my god, the fact that they both got in is amazing, right?
It’s not that impressive I mean they are biological sisters therefore having the same genes and etc
@@melissajuarez2553 Well of circumstance though? The nuture of the two individual families and the accessibility to higher education in the first place. The interest in the same topic? Not all of this is written in genes. Me and my sister have completely different gauges on our 'intellect', we think completely differently, she's a lawyer and i'm an artist. The odds are definitely finite.
My mom met her cousin in her math class at Syracuse University. They coincidentally sat next to each other and became close friends before finding out. Now, we celebrate all the holidays together.
Natalie Edelstein nothing is a coincidence yoooop
I live near there
Natalie Edelstein That’s amazing! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Natalie Edelstein my dad went to Syracuse University.....
That’s what happened with me and my cousin lol 😂
I had a somewhat similar thing happen. It happened nearly thirty years ago. A friend of mine got a new girlfriend. I offerred to drive her home one day and as we were driving, I was making chit-chat and mentioned something about having an aunty that we (my family) would visit as kids, and that the old woman used to put walnuts on everything she baked. Coffee cake with walnuts on the icing, afghan biscuits, with chocolate icing and walnuts etc.,. She said, "heh.., I had an aunty like that and she lived on this road we're driving on. And then we both pointed to the house at the same time. Ended up we were cousins.
Amazing, wow!
Cool!
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing. I love hearing people's unusual stories:) pretty cool!
So did you two hook up?
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Their birth mother made the greatest sacrifice of all. She put her girls needs before her own and most people would judge her but I praise her for what she did. Her two girls seem to have turned out amazing as well. I'm so pleased that they are all in contact again.
Exactly Amy. As someone who has a cousin who is adopted, she has always been a part of my family just as much as my bio relatives. Sometimes adoption is the most loving and best decision one can make.
You don't see all those "White Privilege" people commenting on such videos... cus white privilege doesn't exist, we all suffer equally
Tsar Pushkin dude please
Yes! I wish my mother did this (she was 18, bipolar, addicted to drugs and alcohol, she could have gotten better help and given me a better start, but she wanted to be a 'mommy')
@@TsarOfRuss What are even talking about?
With all this stuff happening I just might have to do a DNA test on the next guy I date
Sarah Gomes 😂😂😂😂
Its good at least you are willing to date unlike most stuck up women 😀😀
Sarah Gomes 🤭🤭🤣👏👏👏👏👏 👍
Lol 😂
Lmao
The girls and their mother all look so alike ! Such a nice story :)
Look alike? One is fairly attractive and the other looks like quasimodo just left the bell tower at notre dame.
@@jmart1393 that's so rude and mean ☹
They honestly look nothing alike ❤️
They do in the face
@@johnnyyuma3878 yes they do... one is rounder in the face but similar features
The girl with the Columbia shirt reminds me of all of Melissa McCarthy’s characters.
I love Melissa McCarthy sm
A mother’s sacrifice to give her daughters a better chance at life. So happy they all turned out very well. ♥️
2 years ago I found out my teacher was my cousin who I’ve never seen in my entire life
That's cool
Maha Bassam story time! Tell us how you found out
Ms. Valverde was my professor for english 101 and 102 and she showed me this video on the last day of english 102; it truly inspired me to keep on going and never give up on my dreams. I admire her as a person and as a Professor, she is truly amazing.
They all resemble each other so much
This shows that similar stories that have been portrayed on Hallmark films is not far fetched at all.
It's amazing how even with different fathers they still look so much alike.
There’s a book titled When God Winks At You. The book is about real life stories just like this where everything happened in the right way ,at the right time ,at the right place ,for the right reason, nothing is by accident everything is divinely inspired. What a blessing!!! With God all things are possible! Their mom is awesome, she got emotional.This is amazing!! Yes there’s definitely could be a movie Sunday have a blessed Christmas 2019 everyone it’s Monday, December 23, 2019
That sounds like such a good book
That’s really twisted “logic”, if that were the case this kind of thing would be happening much more often. This is news because it happens so rarely, these stories are coincidences.
@@johnp139 it does happen a lot, everything doesn't have to be on social media or the news.
Who is it by?
Lonjemarieswisdom Aina YES👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you Jesus for bringing families together!!!❤️❤️
I think a lot of us lonely people hope that there is someone out there who we will meet and after that we'll never be lonely again
@Mo 2k Definitely. I want that family bond that everyone talks about too. I have traveled the world.. every country i find my self looking for anyone that looks like me..But i am American, so my look is all mixed..I want to take the test to confirm but i am Legit terrified of what i may find. I think i will find Italian, Irish, English..maybe some eastern European. Total mutt that was given away..but at least i am cute ,)
yeah, I understand you so much... I always wanted to have sisters or brothers.
I love this. I found my little sister after 34 years. The Lord makes everything right in His time. And His timing is always perfect. Amen!
lol.. tell that to the homeless kid that just died on the street in mumbai
lol... Jessica p has 16 thumbs up and jwst none. no love for the troll.
people ignore reality..
@@jwst8 you're right.
Amen
I love this. I wrote a memoir when I was in college. I graduated in August of 2015. I hope they become poets or memoir writers.
Anybody else rooting for the guy in the back of the reporter's live segment with the bouquet of flowers waiting for someone?
Mama, you did the right thing, two of them in college, wow, and for the adopted parents, God will always bless you'll.
Geez, this comment section is toxic. Lizzie & Katy, if you're reading this, please try to disregard the hateful messages left by people hiding behind their computers. 139,631 people have viewed this video and only 16 disliked it. You're fine.
I think what happened is a miracle. I mean it just cannot be a coincidence! I'm so glad you two found each other! You're both beautiful women and I hope good things for you!
Jenn Hoff ur a beautiful women. God bless you. ❤️❤️❤️ I wish that there were more ppl like you. 💖
@@ashleycruz9601 💖
Jenn Hoff
I absolutely agree with Ashley Cruz!! 💖 Jenn you have a kind heart 💖
@@ashleycruz9601 & Dr. Suess - Aww! You guys are so sweet! Thank you! :) Right back atcha! :)
I mean honestly one looks beautiful and has the smarts to look presentable to a national television show and the other looks like quasimodo the hunchback of notre dame that doesn't know what makeup or even a tampon is
0:30 "But the story they discovered in a Non-fiction writing class was so surreal..."
Me: Oh God, don't tell me the punchline's something like: "It had to be fiction."
Reporter: "...You would think it had to be fiction. #noregrets"
😧 And that is why I leave you now.
The same beautiful smiles!! How awesome is this!!!
Amazing! A very heart-warming story!
Imagine finding out finding out your worst enemy is actually your brother and sister.
You ladies are blessed. Love your dippiles Katie. So glad you have each other to go thru life with
my husband met his older sister for the first time at a neighborhood park when they were like 4 and 8. they had heard about each other but never met, both were being raised by different grandmothers. once they realized who each other was, his sister took him home with her and kept him hidden there for a couple days before they were found out.
I can only imagine how their mom felt letting go of her children. I must have been like getting your extremeties mutilated. you know they were once there, you can still almost feel they are there, can't see it, but can still feel the pain.
@Patrick Cdg & there we have the weirdest comparison on adoption that i have seen yet. Like have your extremities mutilated ?
Star Belly it’s not the adoption part it’s the part about how the mother felt personally. She had to give up her children.
I get the impression the mother was a drug addict, couldn't or wouldn't get her act together and found it easier to give the kids up instead of fighting to keep them.
A real mother never abandons her children, but instead makes those changes in her own life and lifestyle necessary to protect and raise her children.
My wife and I raised six children, through thick and thin and never for a second thought to give any away.
Tom Miller you shouldn’t assume what her circumstances were but okay even if it was due to drug addiction, she still knew she was unable to care for her kids and she needed to do what was right for them. I’m sure you’ve made mistakes that other people would look at and say “I’ve never done such a thing” the good thing is that her kids were both raised in a happy family that could care for them and now they’ve all reunited again.
@@gabbymerritt7937 I understand your point, but the bottom line is she chose to abandon her children instead of doing what needed to be done to keep them.
It's great the kids had a good life with adoptive parents. It's too bad they did not know they had siblings or had a bio mother who kept the family together. After all, even a dirt poor loving family is better than being sent away. Think Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors and the love of that once dirt poor family.
By the way, decades in EMS, Law Enforcement and Crime Scene Investigation has put me in touch with many who even in dire straits were able to keep their priorities straight and properly raise their own children.... and I have had contact with those who preferred their addiction over their children. I suspect the bio mother in this incident is most likely the latter.
This story is amazing!
That was so precious! Would have loved a little bit longer of a piece on that. Feel free to do a follow-up!!!
Tears, just tears. This is incredible.
this is so sweet this gives me goosebumps
Thank you for being honest Mom & giving your children many opportunities they may have never had with you...God bless you all!
Amazing. Beautiful story!
Oh My God, poor mother ❤️ what a woman, I wish she is well today 💕
Wish that siblings never should be separated. And if they are, they should always be able to know where their siblings are, so they can keep in contact, if they want to.
Beautiful story. Happy for them. 🙏🙏🙏
I was watching a couple of twins separated at birth videos and thought this was one of them . lol boy, did it make sense when I reread the title and saw that they were not twins lol
Best video on TH-cam today!
I was adopted at two weeks old. I have often wondered if I have biological siblings out there somewhere.
I love this story and I love these women
Wow! How cool! Got me emotional that these gals met this way and are reunited! So glad their biological mom can share with them, too! Nice! 😇❤
My cousin was with her husband 6 years had a child
.the child had problems they got a DNA test and they ended up having same dad!! True story !!!
I met my cousin (who I hadn't seen since about age 5 - him being a year older) online at "the earlier stages of the internet" (around 1994) when I was 15. Back then it was already rare enough to meet someone from the same, relatively small country I am from, but when we figured out we were related, that was really hilarious.
Thankful her mother chose life for her daughters
I agree. #rehumanize
"what's in your life is stranger than fiction?" what your class brought professor what I saw in your class
Simply amazing and heartwarming
If this turns out to be a Columbia PR stunt, I swear...
Wow cool story. Beautiful ladies.
Cute! They all have the same eyes🤗
loving the shoes Gayle!
Would have been nice to hear the whole interview
Their mother is and was so brave. What an amazing woman.
Carol Howard I think that a lot of people that come from backgrounds where there is abuse or extreme poverty or maybe just ignorance don’t understand the risks of the risks they take . Including unprotected sex. But also there is a chance she used protection and it failed. I know a married woman whose 4 children where all with her using different forms of birth control. She is brave because she gave them life and then was so unselfish she gave her children to better homes.
Wow. What are the odds. Life is amazing like that at times.
Leslie Parker looks like Barb for, stranger things lol😂
That's crazy, hope I see my half brother again!
Wow, two smart sisters!
I have a brother but we have different dads. Not much similarity and zero in common. He’s 43 in 36 we’ve never been close and have nothing to ever say. I wish my parents had had one more kid cause there ain’t anything we share :/
They both look like their birth mother.
Amazing and sad
WOW !!!!!! Awasom story ●♡●
And yes, they look SO MUCH alike.
Congratulations on finding each other.
This is insane!!! Omg
wow!!! i am crying about it
This is amazing story. Lord wanted them to meet.
Yes, this was important to god, but saving starving children isn't.
This lady had rocks she collected in her house she told me her sister loved rocks to. When her sister was 16 she got pregnant and gave up the child. At 21 they were reunited. They drove to go see him. In his apartment were rocks he loved collecting... some hobbies are genetic
awww ❤️
Always makes me happy-sad why am I watching these!
I met two of my third cousins in college. We talked about it and found that we had the same great grandparents.
I never judge women who give their kids up for adoption. The selfish thing to do is to keep your child when you know you’ll be a horrible mom.
Wow......how crazy
Quagmire been quiet since this dropped
His Noodliness in action!!
They look COMPLETELY different
Isn’t where the guy was talking the beginning where gossip girl was filmed?
2020 anyone??
oh wow thats so cool they really smart
Don't think they should have separate them. Know it makes them harder to adopt . People don't always want two kids. But they where all they had each other.
Wow!
God Bless you MOM for your selfless choice to give your girls up. Wish more women could realize that they need to do the same.
Smart girls that had a smart mom!
Call me toxic all you want... I just wonder since they're 34 and 35, and both given up for adoption at birth, why did she fall pregnant (clearly soon) after the first one, knowing she doesn't have the means to give them the best life?🙄Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for them.
Boy, do they look alike.
That's what i said. One looks like a boy and the other a girl.
Maybe they could write about it..
What a nice coincidence!
your beautiful to me good job momma
33 pitiful people thumbs down this video🙄 no heart 🤦
@jennifer carr 33 people who are entitled to their own opinion..34 if you count the thumb down that i am giving your comment..
@@starbelly6349 ooh be careful there. Don't wanna cut yourself on all that edge
I wonder if they have other siblings.
awww
Katy looks just like mom
I met my sister when I was about 37 - our bio father introduced us who we didn't really know or have a relationship with. I knew OF him, and had met him, but never had a life with him - he found her on Facebook.
Well they both have their nonfiction story now! It would be interesting to read both books & compare their feelings & take on the situation. It was meant to be that they found each other.
The girl with Columbia shirts reminds me of my twin sister lol 😂
When things are just meant to happen.
❤️
Wow wanna meet them. I'm gonna follow their careers.
What a trip
What is Gail wearing?
Clothes...........? 🤪
wow what will be will be, blood draws blood
separated at birth, yet 1 year apart? lol
nathalie224 Sisters, not twins....
nathalie224 The sisters might cringe at the title of this video LOL
What's the chances
good thing they reunited ,but If you give up the first one Why need to have second one .
they are a year apart so she probably had them right after the other