Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters

"And I was like, 'Oh my God, she has my nose! We have the same laugh'. "At dinner, I kept looking at her the whole time," Meena told the BBC from her home in the Netherlands.The following day, the girls exchanged telephone numbers and addresses and promised to keep in touch.Even though there was no indication they were related by blood, their connection was instant, and for years they wrote each other letters, often addressing each other as "Sis" because "we felt that way".They wrote about school, friends, boys, going out and dancing. They told each other about the sports they played and discussed music, discovering they both loved Backstreet Boys.Then 15 years ago, they lost contact. Minal had moved to France. And Meena had recently had her first child and got busy.Meena GeltinkMinal and Meena first met as teenagers and became friendsIn 2017, Meena attended another meeting of adoptees from India where she heard about DNA testing and decided to take a test herself. But she never found any matches and earlier this year, deleted the app because her phone storage was full. Then on 20 May, Meena received a message from Minal on Facebook.