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Two years ago, Emily Bushnell didn’t know she had an identical twin sister. But tonight, the world will see her and Molly Sinert compete as a team on the CBS reality show "The Amazing Race."
Bushnell, the administrator for Norristown-based law firm High Swartz, was adopted by a family in Philadelphia from South Korea as a baby. In March 2021, she learned that she had a long-lost identical twin sister living in Florida, after opening an unexpected email. According to an article on the website of High Swartz, the two met in Fort Lauderdale for the first time after finding each other through a DNA match on 23andMe after Bushnell’s 11-year-old daughter Izzy wanted to explore her family tree.
After matches here and there with very distant relatives, Izzy discovered a peculiar match over a year after joining. In March 2021, Izzy and Emily received a message from a woman named Molly Sinert. The message stated that the site had matched Molly as Izzy's mother. This was news to Molly, being that she had never been in labor before and did not have any children. Molly, not looking for family on the site but rather for genetic traits, had actually found her niece with a 49.96% DNA match, making Molly and Emily identical twins.
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