Separated as babies in China, twin girls reunited in Louisiana

Ten years after life took them on different paths, two fraternal twins born in China and abandoned at an orphanage were reunited Saturday in Pineville surrounded by their adoptive parents.

Eleven-year-old Jennie Nadel and Rachel Halbrook didn't know of the existence of each other until a few months ago, after Allison Hornsby connected the dots.

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Hornsby explained that the search for Jennie's twin sister began when someone translated Jennie's Chinese name to English.

It was during a business trip to China that Hornsby, who is in the toy import business, was conversing with a business colleague and a Chinese speaker who happened to see Jennie's passport.

"He said to me 'Do you know what her name means?'. I said, no. 'It means big twin,' he said."

Hornsby said that day she learned that in Chinese culture it's very common for a family who has twins to name them, 'little twin' and 'big twin.'

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