Two Valencian brothers meet forty years later thanks to a DNA testing app

Vanesa and Emilio had been looking for their biological mother for four decades. After numerous unsuccessful attempts, they decided to take a DNA test to look for genetic matches with other people. On September 30 they received the news that they were brothers from father to mother and got in touch, they have not yet been able to see each otherVanesa came into the world on July 27, 1974 at the Virgen del Consuelo Hospital in Valencia and three days later, her adoptive parents took her to her new home. Five years later, Emilio was born in the same hospital, who A few days after he came into the world, he was also given up for adoption. Since then, both have lived apart from each other. Vanessa did not know that she was adopted until she was 16 years old. She assures that she had always lived with an uncertainty that pushed her to wonder if she was adopted or not. Finally, her adoptive parents broke the news to her. “She fell apart all my life,” she says. Emilio found out when he was 13 years old. A nun, whom he called aunt, who was the mediator between her adoptive parents and her biological mother, confessed her condition to him. Searching for their origins Since they found out about their status as adopted children, Vanesa and Emilio tried to locate their biological family. In her case, the desire to know her origins came when she had the first of her three children. “When I saw her face I saw myself reflected in her, I felt that she was part of me and I was part of her, and I understood many stuff. I learned to really love”, he explains. The search for Emilio began as soon as he received the news. He began to ask for information on a platform of adopted children, of stolen babies, and to meet many people. He even reached the archives of the hospital where he was born without getting any response. It was then that he decided to ask his aunt for an explanation. The answer left him scarred for life. The woman warned him that she was not going to find anything because everything had been very well executed. In addition, the nun branded it as Ungrateful for wanting to know their origins.The DNA testVanesa and Emilio each decided to take a test on their own at the MyHeritage DNA company.”It was my last option, neither court rulings nor hospital records helped me,” explains Emilio. After years of disappointments, the surprise came on September 30. That day the two received a message announcing that the laboratory test, after being compared in the database, yielded a coincidence of 40.7% and established a sibling relationship between the two, sharing a double link, that is, they were siblings of father and mother. “It was a mixture of sensations. Joy, happiness, nerves and a huge desire to meet him now. And a little fear of rejection, I didn’t know what his family situation was or how he would react when he found out he had a sister” explains Vanesa. The reaction Emilio was different, he assures that it was a “surprise”, which he received with “disbelief”. From that moment on, they got in touch through messenger and the MyHeritage company message box. They immediately shared their phones and since then they have not stopped talking and sending each other Whatspps. In addition, they have already shared photos and stories of their respective livesHowever, the reunion has not yet occurred. She lives in Castellón and he lives in Valencia, although these days he is in Madrid and they have not been able to see each other. A wait, which, after more than four decades, could take place this Sunday. A moment, which both await with nerves and great enthusiasm. It will be then, when the end of a lifelong search occurs and the beginning of a new one.