Two Maryland neighbors and best friends never understood why they felt so close to one another, closer than they did to their own families. Turns out, they were sisters.
Ana Zellers made the discovery through a DNA test where it was revealed that she and her childhood neighbor and best friend Joanne Smart shared the same father.
“I put all the pieces together,” Zellers says, recounting the moment she broke the news to Smart. “I said, ‘You realize that my son is the only living grandson of our biological father. And my son is your nephew…and my grandchildren are related to you.”
The discovery is detailed on a new podcast from CNN called “Suddenly Family,” hosted by journalist Samuel Burke.
“Eleven percent of people who take a DNA test will discover that one of their parents isn’t their biological parent,” Burke told FOX 5.