Twins separated at birth reunited 19 years later — thanks to a TikTok video
The world’s most divisive app brought them together.
Long-lost twins who were separated at birth have been reunited nearly two decades later, thanks to an unlikely source — TikTok.
Perhaps just as shocking, the twisted story of their initial separation even involves a black-market adoption ring.
In November 2021, country of Georgia resident Ano Sartania, 21, received a TikTok video from a friend that depicted a woman with blue hair who bore a shocking resemblance to her, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.
The pal was wondering why Sartania had dyed her hair blue — at which point the flabbergasted gal pointed out that it wasn’t her.
Hoping to get some intel on her mysterious doppelgänger, Sartania reposted the video to a Facebook group in the hopes that someone would recognize her.
Sure enough, the Georgian’s prayers were answered after a friend of the mystery woman — the twin later identified as Tako Khvitia — noticed the post and sent Sartania contact information for her.
The pair finally got in touch via phone — and that’s when Sartania learned the surprising truth that her lookalike was her long-lost twin.
The estranged siblings reunited two years ago on the Rustaveli Bridge in the Georgia capital of Tbilisi.
“Every human being has a smell of their own,” gushed Sartania while reflecting on their reconnection. “When I hugged her, I felt a feeling of familiarity. Then the voice, it’s as if you already knew what voice [she] had.”
The reunion marked the culmination of a long and bizarre saga that began 19 years earlier on June 20, 2002, when their birth mother, Aza Shoni, had the twins in the small village of Kirtskhi.
Unfortunately, due to undisclosed birth complications, the mother slipped into a coma. Meanwhile, her husband, Gocha Gakharia, with whom she already had three children, had long been convinced the twins were not his and chose to illegally sell Ano and Tako to families living in different parts of Georgia, according to the La Repubblica report.
As a result, Ano went to live in Tbilisi, while her familial facsimile was raised around 160 miles away in Zugdidi, a western Georgia city — each growing up oblivious to the other’s existence.
Nonetheless, much like the lookalike sisters in the 1998 film “The Parent Trap,” the Georgians had similar upbringings, with both of them getting involved in dance early on.
In fact, at age 11, both sisters competed in the same dance contest in the city of Tako, where some audience members noticed the eerie resemblance but nobody put two and two together.
Their lives continued on their separate trajectories — until their joyous reunion around a decade later.
Despite their physical separation, Ano says she often had strange visions, which, in retrospect, she believes were a telekinetic connection to her long-lost twin.
“I always had this feeling that someone was following me everywhere I went. Every day I had the same dream of a little girl, dressed in black, asking me questions about my daily routine,” she said.
Today, the pair are inseparable and frequently upload Instagram stories of themselves traveling together and doing other activities while rocking matching outfits.
In a recent post, the two could be seen sporting matching motorcycle jackets and blond crew cuts during a trip to Leipzig, Germany, where their biological mother lives. They traveled there to shoot a movie about their life, according to La Repubblica.
While the Georgian sisters were over the moon about reuniting, they refused to meet their father, whose bond they confirmed via a DNA test.
“Now he wants a relationship with us,” declared Ano. “But it will never happen.”
Ano and Tako are just two of many victims of Georgia’s infamous illegal adoption rings, which saw 100,000 children sold in the country between 1950 and 2006, La Repubblica reported.
Following the fall of the Soviet Union, many of the kids were adopted by American, Canadian and European families, with costs reaching tens of thousands of dollars.
