It was via Facebook the two fraternal Indonesian twins Emelie Falk and Lin Backlund found each other after being separated at birth. Both were adopted more than three decades ago from an orphanage in Semarang, Indonesia, by different Swedish parents.
In 2012, they made headlines all over the world, after they had finally reunited via social media. Three years later, they searched for their missing twin brothers, also on Facebook – and they found them, too! Now the amaxing story of the siblings who found each other on social media will be shown at the TLC documentary series “Separated at Birth”, which will air at both Swedish and British television.
It all began five years ago, when the adopted Emelie got married. Now she had started her own family, she was wondering about her own roots, especially because she was recently noticed about a woman, who had told to Emelie’s adoptive mother that her child might be the biological sister to Emelie.
Just like a blind date
Emelie needed to know her roots, and she took the matter into her own hands by searching for Lin on Facebook. Surprisingly, Lin, the girl claimed to be her sister, lived only few miles away from Emelie in Helsingborg. She contacted Lin, and both agreed to meet each other.