The story of senior siblings reuniting after being separated for 80 years is the most heartwarming story you’ll see on the internet this week.
You’re going to need tissues for this story folks. Like, a lot of tissues.
This story is so powerful that even Australian ABC News 24 morning show host Joe O’Brien broke down in tears while reporting on the story on air.
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The story begins with a torpedoed ship, the SS Iron Crown, that was attacked by the Japanese about 100 kilometers off the south coast of Victoria, Australia in 1942.
The shipwreck took Frank Stewart’s life, who was 64 at the time, along with 38 others.
This left Stewart’s two young children, Bill and Beryl, as orphans since their mother had passed away a few years prior.
The kids were already living at an orphanage while their father, who joined the merchant navy after his wife passed, was at sea.
After their father’s death, Bill was sent to the Boys’ Home in Adelaide, while his sister was adopted by a family.
Siblings were often separated during this time because it was believed that children needed a “clean break” from their biological families when adopted.
Daily Mail reports that authorities actually blocked them from contacting one another.
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