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Couple Adopts Twins from China and Reunites Them

Aired April 08, 2002 - 05:40   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: You know children are often fascinated by mirrors, conversing with the person they see not realizing it's actually their own reflection they're talking to. But what if you were used to seeing another person and then suddenly found yourself left with only a reflection? Did you follow that?

Kristy Paulas (ph) of Seattle affiliate KCPQ explains how a long awaited reunion brought both sides of one reflection back together.

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RANDY ROSEEN, FATHER: Go hug. Go hug.

KRISTY PAULAS, KCPQ-TV REPORTER (voice-over): (UNINTELLIGIBLE) China, little Brianna (ph) Roseen hugs her identical twin sister, Siona (ph), the sister she almost lost forever.

R. ROSEEN: Brianna, when we were in China, she'd play in the mirror. She'd sit in the mirror and touch it and talk to it. So I think there's something, a little bit of recognition that she remembers her.

PAULAS: This story began a year ago when Jane and Randy Roseen adopted Siona, then a year old, from China. After they got home, they discovered from pictures taken by her foster mother that there was a twin sister left behind, a child they never knew about, that their new daughter hadn't forgotten.

R. ROSEEN: And everybody said it sounded like she was mourning, you know, and we didn't know why. But after we got home and saw the pictures, made more sense why she was whimpering.

PAULAS: The other twin was still in the Chinese orphanage. After nine months of endless paperwork, DNA tests and hand-wringing, the Roseen's were cleared to adopt her and they named her Brianna. Randy Roseen brought her home from China this morning. Sister Siona was waiting. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) were tears. Then a little touch. Finally, Brianna hugged Siona.

JANE ROSEEN, MOTHER: So natural and familiar. It's amazing.

R. ROSEEN: Been a long, long, long road to get this done.

PAULAS: Tonight, the twins are home in a room they will share. They'll sleep together after almost missing a lifetime.

R. ROSEEN: This special bond between them, and it's going to be fun to see how it works out.

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COSTELLO: Looks like it's going to work out pretty good.

That was Kristy Paulas of KCPQ in Seattle reporting for us this morning.

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