Twin sisters, sold illegally at birth, reunited thanks to TikTok

Two Georgian twins, separated at birth when they were sold to different adoptive families<, have been reunited and have TikTok to thank for bringing them back together.

The astonishing story begins 10 years ago when one of the twins, Amy Khvitia, sat watching Georgia’s Got Talent in her godmother’s house near the Black Sea.

A young girl, who looked exactly like her, climbed up on stage and began to dance in front of the reality show’s judges.

“Everyone was calling my mum and asking: ‘Why is Amy dancing under another name?’” she told the BBC.

However, when she brought it up with her mom, she was told it was just a coincidence.

“Everyone has a doppelganger,” Amy recounted her mother as saying.

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Another seven years went by when Ano Sartania, the young girl that had danced on television, was sent a Tik Tok video of a young woman with blue hair getting her eyebrow pierced.

“My friend found that video of her getting the piercing, and sent it to me. She was like, ‘It’s you’,” she told The Sun. “And I said: ‘it’s not me, but it’s me. So I was searching for that person, and I couldn’t find her.”

Determined, Ano took to a WhatsApp university group with her plea, asking for help finding the woman with the blue hair.

Against all odds, someone in the group knew Amy and the pair was connected through Facebook.

Still not knowing they were related and assuming they simply looked a lot alike, Amy and Ano agreed to meet in-person at a local train station.

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“It was awkward, it was awesome, it was everything,” Ano told The Sun of that first meeting, adding, “It was weird for me like I was looking in a mirror.”

As they grew to know each other more, the two women began to