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Long-lost siblings reunite in chance encounter at Texas hospital after ending up in the same city

A pair of long-lost siblings who reunited, courtesy of a DNA test, had been crossing one another for several years in the halls of a hospital in Texas. Raymond Turner moved from Houston to Fort Worth and had been working at a hospital in which his sister, Christina Sadberry, brought her son in for his treatments.

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Updated Aug 12, 2022, 08:37 IST

Long-list siblings Raymond Turner and Christina Sadberry hold each other in a loving embrace after reuniting at a hospital in Fort Worth | Picture courtesy: Cook Children's Checkup Newsroom

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While Sadberry had been searching for her biological family for the last 16 years, Turner recently began the quest.
They matched on a DNA-testing app.
The siblings were over the moon about finding each other and quickly embraced one another.

Texas, United States: A pair of long-lost siblings who reunited, courtesy of a DNA test, had been crossing one another for several years in the halls of a hospital in Texas.

Raymond Turner and his family moved from Houston to the city of Fort Worth in Texas back in 2015, where he started working as a producer at the Sparklefly Recording Studio of the Cook Children’s Hospital - a studio where patients can record their own music, according to UPI.

Turner said he joined the facility the same year that Christina Sadberry started bringing in her then-four-year-old son, Bryson.

Sadberry lived with her adoptive family from a young age and had been searching for her biological family since 2006. She moved several homes before coming to the Kellar suburb in the Fort Worth metroplex.Long lost siblings reunite after chance encounter in US hospital

However, the big revelation wasn’t to come until more than 6 years later when Turner’s wife, Maria, got him a DNA kit for Christmas in 2021 for the Texan to learn more about his lineage - and voila - match found!

He matched with a sibling: Sadberry.

Turner reached out to Sadberry on the 23andMe DNA testing app but it appeared that she had been inactive for a while. So, Maria herself got in touch with her sister-in-law on Facebook.

The sister said she recognised her brother from earlier that same day.

Sadberry looked at Turner’s photos on the social networking website and realised she had seen him playing the keyboard at the recording studio.

She said the encounter stood out to her because it was the first time during any of Bryson’s appointments that someone was playing in there.

"This right here is nothing I expected," Sadberry said. “It can only go up from here. It already feels like family.”

The reunited siblings plan to catch up on all the years lost.

“There are no accidents in this world,” Turner said.

“I hope that if people realise anything through this, it’s that yeah there are moments in our lives that we consider to be serendipitous, but when you put all of these things together when we recount all of this, there’s no way we could have planned this, could have scripted this. This was a divine appointment, this was on God’s timetable and it was at the right moment.”

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