Sometimes when you meet someone for the first time, you feel an instant kinship. That was the case for two Connecticut coworkers who later learned their sisterhood wasn't just figurative-it was literal. Julia Tinetti and Cassandra Madison were both born in the Dominican Republic and later adopted. Each woman had a tattoo of that country's […]
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