Facebook has helped reunite two Indonesian- born sisters after nearly 30 years.
Emilie Falk and Lin Backman, non-identical twins, were separated just weeks after their birth when two Swedish couples adopted them from an Indonesian orphanage in 1983.
Ironically, the two were living just 25 miles apart from each other in southern Sweden, for decades .
Lin initially ignored a message she received on the social networking site from a woman claiming to be her sister.
Finally, when curiosity got the better of her, she asked her adoptive mother if there was any chance of the message being true.
She was told that the when she was being taken to Sweden from the orphanage , the taxi driver asked the Backman’s about the “other girl( Emilie)”, prompting the Swedish couple to note down the twins’ Indonesian names.
Lin responded to the Facebook message , expressing interest in meeting the sender.
Following several meeting, Emilie and Lin decided to go for a DNA test , which confirmed what they had thought at their first meetings: they were twin sisters.