Julia Tinetti, 31, and Cassandra Madison, 32, first met in 2013 while working at The Russian Lady, a bar in New Haven, Connecticut, and the two immediately hit it off.
“We started hanging out together. We went out for drinks, dinner,” Julia told “Good Morning America.” “I thought she was cool. We hit it off right away,” added Cassandra
The two also shared a strong physical resemblance and matching tattoos of the flag of the Dominican Republic. They had a bond that was so unique, even their coworkers thought there must be something more happening.
“I looked at both of them and I was like, ‘You two look alike, like are you guys, sisters?’” their former coworker Courtney Ritchotte told WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.
Both of the women were adopted from the Dominican Republic so they checked their adoption papers to see if they may be related. After first looking at their papers, they learned they had different parents. But suspicions grew when Julia discovered there was an error on her adoption papers.
Even when Cassandra moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2015, she and Julia stayed in touch.
