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DNA helping Chinese adoptees do what was once impossible: Locate blood relatives in this country

“Honestly, I couldn’t really fathom it at first, and even now it seems pretty unbelievable."

Bryn Mawr College student Claire Mitchell, 20, (left) and Temple University student Stefanie Beard, 21, in front of Independence Hall at 6th and Chestnut Street on Friday morning. Both women were adopted from Huazhou Social Welfare Institution in Southern China and discovered after a 23andMe DNA test that they were related .
Bryn Mawr College student Claire Mitchell, 20, (left) and Temple University student Stefanie Beard, 21, in front of Independence Hall at 6th and Chestnut Street on Friday morning. Both women were adopted from Huazhou Social Welfare Institution in Southern China and discovered after a 23andMe DNA test that they were related .Read moreANTHONY PEZZOTTI / Staff Photographer