A WOMAN has finally met her long-lost sister after 65 years apart from each other. 

Rusland woman Sarah Demick was born into the Ojibwa tribe in Toronto, Canada, but she was fostered by a British family in 1958 when she was just 10 days old. This was because her mother was struggling to cope with raising her and her older sister on her own. 

Since then, she had never met her 68-year-old sister Christine Migwans, known as Tina, face to face. At some point, Tina moved from the reservation on Manitoulin Island in Canada to Hammond, Indiana in the United States. 

The two sisters eventually found each other on Facebook. To Sarah's surprise and delight, she got a message from Tina saying that she would arrive at Manchester Airport on October 16 to stay for three days.

However, the trip was nearly stymied when Sarah became ill. She said: "At first it wasn't looking like it was going to go very well because I had the flu. I had to pull myself together."

But when the sisters finally met each other after her husband drove Tina from the airport, all was well: "When they came back - oh my God - I was happy and sad and everything all rolled into one. 

"It was incredible. We just had a big hug and cried for about five minutes.

"Afterwards I didn't feel so bad, it was the best cure for flu I have ever had." 

The sisters packed a lot into three days. Sarah showed Tina the Lake District and they visited The Beatles museum in Liverpool as Tina is a fan of the Fab Four and got 'a big kick out of' going. 

Sarah said that the two would remain in touch, and they were now cooking up a plan for her to visit Tina in Chicago. They have another sister called Lisa who lives in Florida and Sarah hopes that the three can reunite. 

She is also 'hoping against hope' that they can meet their brother. None of the sisters know what has happened to him. 

The meeting has finally given Sarah some closure. "For me, there is a sense overall I come from people - I belong somewhere. I had always had that empty-ish feeling," she said.