DNA confirmed they were sisters. They agreed to meet for brunch and gasped the moment they saw each other

Some connections take a lifetime to reveal themselves, but when they do, they arrive with the kind of clarity that makes the time apart feel negligible. That’s what happened when two women — Katarina Leviev, 51, and Olga Jorgensen, 63 — met for the first time as sisters and walked into brunch wearing the exact same dress. The moment was captured on TikTok by Leviev’s daughter, Alex, on her page @www.rackcitybitch.com with the caption, "Invisible String Theory. 000." In the short video, Leviev and her sister, Jorgensen, are seen walking, wearing the same multicolor Zimmermann minidress.

As per Today, as soon as they spotted each other, they burst into laughter. Neither had told the other what they’d be wearing. In fact, the sisters had only recently discovered they were related. In 2024, Leviev and Jorgensen learned through '23andMe' that they were half-sisters. Both had been born in Russia and immigrated to the United States decades earlier, unaware of the other’s existence. "We were talking and it was crazy how much we had in common," Leviev told Today. But nothing drove that point home quite like what happened when they finally met in person. "Should I go change?" Leviev joked in the moment. But neither sister moved. They were too caught off guard by how natural it felt — how funny, and somehow right, it was to show up in matching outfits. 

Leviev later recalled the moment in full, saying, "We couldn’t believe it. She was carrying a Dior bag, and I have the same one in the same color." She added, "We have the exact same taste in everything. Even our houses look the same." Jorgensen lives in Florida. Leviev raised four children in New Jersey before moving to Miami. They grew up apart, built separate lives, and yet, by the time they sat across from each other at brunch, they already seemed to know each other. "It’s so strange to think I didn’t even know she existed. When I see her kids, her daughter looks like me when I was young. The whole thing is insane," Leviev said.

Stories like theirs might seem beyond coincidence, but research offers a possible explanation. A notable study in this area, "Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits: A Survey," indicates that individual differences in most reliably measured psychological traits are substantially influenced by genetic factors. While Leviev and Jorgensen lived on opposite ends of the country and took decades to discover each other, Mary McLaughlin and Diane Ward spent their childhoods just minutes apart — and still never knew they were sisters.

McLaughlin and Ward were raised separately but unknowingly spent their childhoods just 15 minutes apart in Michigan, even visiting the same bakeries and having family in each other’s cities. Ward, who was adopted, used MyHeritage to trace her roots and was eventually connected to McLaughlin through a maternal cousin. After a three-hour video call, the sisters met in person and spent time together on a family beach vacation. They discovered they had striking similarities, including shared gestures, humor, favorite foods, and shopping habits. McLaughlin said the connection felt immediate and overwhelming, and Ward’s daughter jokingly remarked, "Now there's two of you, one on each continent."

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