Last year，the Ramirez family of suburban Miami adopted a girl who had been abandoned a week later on the same spot.

　　Both families named their daughters Mia.It turns out，a first name and Chinese heritage aren’t the only things the three-year-olds have in common.The girls’ mothers—Holly Funk and Diana Ramirez—met on a website for parents who had gone through international adoptions.After a lot of emails comparing photographs and biographical details，DNA testing proved the families’ suspicions: The girls are probably fraternal twins.

　　“I was in shock，” said Ramirez，who lives with her husband Carlos in Pembroke Pines，Florida.“Well，now this is for real.”

　　The Internet and Web groups revolving around international orphanages are increasingly being used to link adopted children with biological kin(亲属)．The site that Funks and Ramirezes used has a membership of 137 people，with 15 sets of twins and 7 sets of siblings whose relationships have been confirmed.At a reunion at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport，Mia Diamond Funk and Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other，and then reached for each other’s hand.

　　DNA tests establish an 85 percent probability that the girls are at least half-sisters.Scientists do not have a biological parent to test and reach a greater certainty，but given their ages and physical similarities，experts say it is likely they are fraternal twins.

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