A wholesome story about half-sisters reuniting from almost 4,000 miles apart played out in front of the entire internet — and it was all thanks to TikTok.
In 1998, Rachel Weiner was adopted from an orphanage in Bogotá, Colombia. Her parents raised her in New York, and she describes her childhood as happy and healthy. But there was always a part of her that yearned for a connection to her roots. Rachel told The Times that her adoptive parents had given her one passport photo of her biological mother and encouraged her to look at it whenever she needed to. Soon, that photo was no longer enough to fill her cup, and she set out on a journey that could have come straight out of This Is Us.
