Twins who reunited on 'GMA' graduate high school
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Audrey and Gracie, who were separated as toddlers in China and met for the first time on "GMA," return as valedictorians and get some surprises.
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They were BOTH valedictorian of their separate high schools!! They are both amazing.
Because they are Asians
Intelligence is genetic
Why does that make me wanna cry. Amazing!!
Raised by different white parents but can't take the Asian out from inside them... 😅 Interesting
@@knock-knockwhosthere9933 Model minority myth negatively harms the Hmong community that don’t “naturally” excel in school
Twins should never be separated. So glad they found each other.
Siblings should never be separated.
@@queensade1325👏🏽👏🏽
Hey grr
family!*
Blame the parents
Props to their parents for raising such amazing daughters!
Their reaction to the Greys Anatomy stars was so underwhelming 😂😂
Their reaction to being given money was underwhelming
There prob shy or one of the people that don’t show actual how they feel about some
I think meeting your twin after being separated makes everything in your life a little underwhelming
I thought they were happy about it but very polite.
@@dillonohlemiller401 one of them even cried...
not them spoiling every surprise with the giant screen behind the hosts right before they announce it lol sow wonderful to see that they stayed in touch because they could've easily just not kept in touch as much. Im happy their families also are so supportive.
😂😂😂😭 that jumbotron really spoiled every last one
It’s sad that an adoption agency wouldn’t let one family adopt both girls. So happy they found each other❤
Yes I know!! 😫😫
They believed the chances were better for the girls being adopted, if they did separate adoptions. Believing people would want to adopt twins. Or like the other ones, triplets.
I still feel like them meeting each other for the first time in person shouldn't have been televised. It was such a emotional moment for them and they shoud have been given the time to fully process it with one another.
Yeah, that made me uncomfortable as well. It’s an “all about ratings” moment that should have been private.
Completely agree. They’re human beings with real emotions, not props.
Oh stop. They have had plenty of time to do that off screen!
@@nancyfarkas3592 No need to get so angry here. Jesus. They did video chat beforehand, but their parents made the decision for them to meet live on TV.
I also think they have met in private first.
Congratulations Young Ladies!💐💐💐 I was adopted 52 years ago and have never met my biological family but I still look forward to it. Best wishes on your many future endeavors.❤️
Good luck to you and God bless you bring your family together
We 3😢😢@@samwhite7291
Have you ever thought of doing an Ancestry DNA test?
I hope you can someday :)
sorry to break it to you, but your parents are probably dead by now
I'm also an identical twin and I don't even know what I'd do if I was ever separated from my brother!!!!! Our relationship is very tight!!!!! We're 22 now and out of high school. I love my brother so much!!!!! 💙💙
Aww
Only twins will understand this relationship.
aww that’s so sweet💙
Only *identical twins will understand @@lordalfa600
It's so hard to believe that it's been7 years!! They are both lovely young ladies and they are going to do fantastic things in their future.
It feels like it was so much longer than that
can’t lie i’d have to make one set of parents move 😭 wouldn’t be able to only see her a few times a year but now they’re adults and will most likely get to enjoy adulthood together!
Good on the parents for making sure the girls stayed connected
I cried then and I am crying again. Congratulations to two amazing young ladies
Same!!!
Congratulations Audrey and Gracie on graduating from high school
I didnt think 7 years already has passed. I remember first time watching you both united on GMA with both of your families by your side and now you both grew into beautiful young ladies. Congratulations on valedictorians. You both are fortunate to have great families behind you.
Wow, I saw the story years ago. Still teary now hearing the story again. All grown up so pretty. CONGRATS!
Thankful to the Mom who was determined to make sure they met. Congratulations to the twins for their accomplishments so far🎉
What a full circle moment. I remember seeing this years ago.
They have been blessed with great adoptive parents! Congratulations ladies! Well done Moms and Dads!
The saddest thing is when I was in China back in 2008 so many couples were adopted baby girls . What they didn’t know was that the families didn’t want to give their little girls up for adoption but they had to . They could only keep one child and they kept the boy to help on the farm. 😢
Boys weren't kept to help with the farm. Boys were kept because they held value over girls because it is a long held belief all over Asia that boys continue the family legacy. That's why when push came to shove, girls were given up instead.
I’m glad that ridiculous one child policy is over and gone for good.
@@helenau8940 China went from one child policy to allowing 3 and now nobody wants any children.
@@helenau8940They allow families to have a few kids a couple of years ago if they want after slowing increasing the number of kids since around 2015 or something.
My family adopted my first Chinese sister back in 2008, and we were definitely aware of what was going on. My sister was abandoned on the steps of the orphanage. They actually had to make abandonment legal in China because mothers were throwing their babies away. We have a lot of empathy for what was going on there, and the families who still won’t get a chance to have more kids due to age even though the one child law is gone now. Also, there were ten families in our group when we went that year, and half of them adopted girls while the other half adopted boys. Boys get the shaft there was well.
I am trying not to cry. I watched it 7 years ago and now they've graduated! I'm so happy this story stayed joyful.
It’s such a blessing that these twins were reunited. They have grown into beautiful young women. I live in the same city as EOU, Gracie. A good friend’s daughter attended EOU (from WA) on a soccer scholarship. It’s a nice, safe campus in a beautiful location.
Kudos to their parents ! They did great raising these beautiful well behaved ladies ! All the best !
Nice to see those two have an ongoing relationship with each other after the reunion 7 years ago.
I’m not crying….you’re crying!! I have goosebumps and am so full of love for these sweet, beautiful young women! Thank you, GMA, for sharing these beautiful moments with us!! Thank you to their amazing parents too!!! They must be SO proud!
Such lovely classy smart young ladies. Thanks GMA for treating the sisters so nicely!!
I was so hoping they were going to the same college! Im so glad they found each other, but it breaks my heart they were ever separated. It's criminal to separate twins. God bless them both.
So you’re saying it would have been better for the Twins to have stayed in the Orphanage together in China than be adopted separately and brought to the United States.
@@PHN-2024 Ridiculous projecting you are doing! They should've been adopted together--they could've found an American family that would gladly accept twins! Twins have an incredible bond that should never be broken! Reading is fundamental...try critical thinking for once!
@@tinastardust7793 Obviously there were No American Families looking to Adopt Two Chinese Children at once…Try Just Thinking!
@@PHN-2024 How could you ever make that assessment about thousands of individuals adopting that they wouldn't accept twins?? Unless you worked for the China adoption agency, shut up, I mean really. You don't know what was available. You are projecting again. Stop typing. I have better things to do. Bottom line, twins being separated is criminal and should never happen!!
Criminal? You're exaggerating.
As a twin I can say twins should never be separated. I can only imagineThe void they must have felt before their reunion
Awww look how theyve grown into a beautiful ladies. I watched this a long time ago when they met for the first time as little girls. They kept the sisterly bond connection congratulations to them.
Real life Sister, Sister!! So glad they were given the opportunity to create a bond. Praying for all the best❤❤❤
Words cannot express my respect for their parents to raise such gorgeous ladies, they definitely have a bright favorite🥰
These 2 always make me tear up. I was blessed to be adopted with not only my identical twin, but my little sister as well.
But that almost wasn't the case as they had separated us. My twin and I fornabout 3 or 4 months and my little sis 6 months.
But my mom and dad fought to keep us together praise God. All we did was cry for each other
Why this making me cry, they grew up fast. Best of wishes to both of them .
Thanks GMA, for making me cry again. 😭
So sorry they were separated, but so glad their families get together!!
This is so nice. All these wholesome stories have me crying at my desk.
What a beautiful story, beautiful twins Parents you did good, But shout out to the Mom who was so curious about the other baby 🫶 I'm so happy they have each other and amazing parents 🥰
It's heart touching i cry after seeing this precious moment i am a old guy not ashamed of crying God bless them for their unity
The fact these beautiful girls still have to grow up separated to an extent just breaks my heart
You can tear them apart but you can't separate the sweet angels 💕💕💕
Congrats to both of you VALEDICTORIANS!!!
I mean is that even surprising?
@@sdlock83of course it is surprising. 🤦
@@ThatSuzanneSchmid No it's NOT surprising. If it's surprising, then your common sense is experiencing a major malfunction.
Brilliant young women. Great stories of loving a child as your own.
Saying hi to you from the ATP/WTA neighborhood of YT!
i cried then seeing them and i cried now. they deserve that 10k
So touching. Still remembered watching this story a few years ago .
Congratulations! Beautiful story from the beginning…
Wow, both Valedictorians! That’s amazing!
This is sooo sweet. They've both blossomed into such confident, young ladies! Such a big change and so beautiful!
This is such a great & touching story! Reminds me of my adoption/meeting bio family story. I was adopted by my adoptive parents at 3 days old but met my biological family when I was 11. It was an open adoption luckily and I initiated the meeting. My adoptive parents understood I felt lost & needed to find them and experience my culture. I have 4 biological siblings, one older and 3 younger but didn’t know about them since I was the only one put up for adoption. I am lucky to have grown up with my siblings from being a tween since we live 30 mins away. It’s a blessing to have both sets of my parents and my siblings at the dinner table. My bio mom was looking at another family that lived in Colorado that wanted a closed adoption so I could never look for them. It’s a miracle it worked out and my parents and siblings all get along wonderfully! Im 26 now and I don’t know what I’d do without them!
Awe man! i'm crying! they are absolutely beautiful!! yes!!!
It's great that they have their own identities and they have stayed in contact. I'm incredibly proud of them!
So happy for them but sad to think they were separated when they were children. At least they’re close now. They so sweet!
Why am I crying? I feel so old. Where did the time go?!!! Congratulations girls! 🎉
AWWWW, A real life sister 2:20 sister moment. 💕💕💕💕💕💕
I remember watching the video of them reuniting years ago when I was in middle school and congratulations to both of them especially both being valedictorians wooo! Good luck to them in college & their future paths! As a current college student absolutely heartwarming.
I remember these girls. Love this!! So blessed.
They grew to be so beautiful omg ! Congratulations to the both of them on the accomplishments ! Both valedictorian and scholarships !
aww they’ve grown up so beautifully🩷 i wish them all the best in their new chapter of life and congrats on valedictorian to both of them!!💞💞
Wow 7 years already? They both have grown into beautiful young ladies. It would be so great if they decided to go to the same medical school and maybe live together during that time as a support system for each other.
Aww they are incredibly sweet. I have twins and would never want them to be apart.
I saw the first video and I’m stilllllll crying!
I love how underwhelmed they are by the $5000. "Wow. Thanks."
yea , I thought that same thing lol!
They’re humble
@@avanwosu I guess, I mean they're shy so Idk
I mean, if you already have the mindset that you're going to have $250-300k in student loans by the time you graduate from medical school, even the $10k scholarship isn't really going to be life-changing like it might be for some people.
Listen to their voices and look at their body language. They both seem very shy and nervous. They are on national TV talking about their personal lives and they’re only 18.
You all have made a difference with your kind words. Thank you!
They have turned into such beautiful young ladies. Wishing them the best.
One of the greatest feel-good stories ever.
what do you people expect them to do about the money? cartwheel and scream? not to mention theyre still kids and clearly emotional and overwhelmed about this whole situation being in the public eye and all that.
I still don't get why there multiple cases of twins who get adopted separately.
They didn’t know when they adopted that they were twins. And china does things like this
@@nancyfarkas3592: It's not just China; there are European & South American agencies that have also had twins adopted separately across the country. I also remember years ago seeing a tv host interview 6 sets of twins of various ages whom had been reunited after being adopted separately.
I think it's probably easier to find homes for single babies and they're afraid if they show them as twins people won't adopt them because they don't want to separate them. I don't agree with it at all, but I'm thinking that's why they do it.
It’s all about the money.
🤦♀️ just enjoy the moment
Twins sisters and only getting to see each other 2x a year? 😢 Being valedictorian in 2 different schools? Amazing 👏
I'm happy to see how well both girls are doing. I remember the first time they were on. I'm a mom of twins and I personally think it should be illegal to separate multiples. As infants my twins were inconsolable if they were in different beds. As toddlers they spoke for one another. I separated them in school but they managed to have the same friend groups all the way through high school. They had the same first job. And moved 1700 miles apart as adults. Their bond can never be broken, and it's been amazing to witness it.
What an incredible journey for those twins! Congratulations to you both and best wishes for your future together!
Such a good story! Twins should never ever be separated, so glad that they were able to find each other and reunite and connect and create a bond! And so so glad they were able to go back onto the show and definitely all the surprises that they were surprised with so happy for both of them heartwarming story, indeed❤
Heartwarming story ❤❤
I love watching them all of the time! Thank Goodness for our technology today such as FaceTime, ZOOM, etc. 30 years ago they could not have kept up like they do - it would have been only the phone or travel.
What lucky parents to have such amazing bright caring reliable daughters❤❤
Got to have them back when they graduate college 🥰
It’s so sad that the system separate twins or any siblings for that matter. I have twin daughters and I know how tight their bond is.🙏🏾
Damn, wasn’t really expecting to cry this morning. Glad they’re tears of joy. 😂🎉❤
Gosh... i remember when they met up! Beautiful and bright young ladies!❤
This really made my day. Gosh, it's been 7 years already? Amazing to see just how far they've come. Thank you GMA for this follow-up. God bless you girls!
And man, I feel old, lol. 🤷🏽♂🤣
Real life sister sisters one twin even has the mole, if you know you know. Congratulations girls so amazing!
Nice seeing them together still after years, a Huge Clap to the Parents, Hope other twins who are separated can one day reunite with each other again and stay in touch.
Time flies…seems like yesterday seeing their reunion video. Thank you for follow-up GMA!
Wonder if they are planning to meet their birth mom❤️ that’s emotional to think about 😢that poor mom would be so happy to see them now ❤
remember watching this video years ago 😭 can’t believe they graduated
Omg, time flies so fast and I'm happy for these two lovely girls, now ladies. ❤ CONGRATULATIONS
i remember their story that so sweet that they have grown up. wish them the best of luck!
Wow one to Vanderbilt and the other recruited for soccer with a full ride I assume. They both turned out amazing
Maybe if their bio parents are out there they can see how remarkable their little girls have done (with help and support from their wonderful families). God bless them!
Wow…I remember watching the video 7 years ago and I thought “wow…this is so awesome and they better stay super close!” And now look at them now😢 time flys by so fast
I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
Both of them becoming valedictorian is actually incredible!!!
i remember watching them meet for the first time and crying this is the most wholesome thing ever I'm literally crying again
Very happy for them. Congratulations!
It's nice to see that both families were on the same page. Making sure they remained a part of one another's lives. It kind of sucks that they weren't able to move closer to one another. I can't help but imagine them still feeling like they were robbed of a life together. It's better than not meeting at all but if I found out that I had a twin at that age and we were forced to live apart I can't imagine what that would feel like. Too bad they're not going to college together or closer together. Now that they can see one another when ever they want.
Wow how amazing story and lucky girls. and congratulations both of you and take care!
i would of screamed and probably cried when i saw the greys anatomy doctors😩
Watching this at a mother of twins…I could never have my girls separated..idk the situation with the birth mom but that really breaks my heart
I remember seeing these girls on the news when I was younger that's wonderful to see them where they are now
pretty amazing how they both turned out to be super smart kids.
Such a positive story with a good ending, this should be a movie story one day.
I was also adopted from China when I was a baby, and I’m living in the U.S. like them too. I know nothing about my past nor do I remember my life in China as a baby before I was adopted. I’ve always wondered what my birth parents looked like and if I have a sibling or even a twin. I don’t know if I’ll ever know, but it would be cool if that opportunity comes up.
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Congratulations young beautiful ladies keep moving forward the sky is the limit
Watching them meet feels like only yesterday!!