Strangers Chat on Bus, Realize They Were in Same Orphanage
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Updated: 9:12 AM PDT Apr 27, 2021 Rachel Trent, CNN When Ally Cole, a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, sat next to freshman Ruby Wierzbicki on a bus on April 14, she struck up a conversation just so she didn't have to sit in silence on her way to class. After some small talk, she realized she was sitting next to someone she used to live with.Cole and Wierzbicki's conversation started off as a typical one for college students -- they talked about their majors and home states. But the normality stopped after they learned they were both originally from Chi...
"We started scrolling through our photos on our phones, and I realized that Ruby had a lot of photos of me that I'd never seen before and photos where we were together," Cole said. "We even had a mutual friend from the orphanage, Emma, that we each had photos with." She added, "One of the photos was one that we both had, with us standing next to each other, and I hadn't known who the girl next to me was, but now I know." Both girls chose to study at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA after attending the "College for a Weekend" event.
‘A blessing’: Liberty students meet on bus, discover they lived in the same Chinese orphanage ‘We think that this is 100% God,’ said freshman Ruby Wierzbicki Published: Updated: Tags: Liberty University students find out they lived together in the same orphanage in China (Liberty University) LYNCHBURG, Va. – Liberty University students, Ally Cole and Ruby Wierzbicki, started out a regular Wednesday bus ride to campus complete strangers, but after sparking conversation with each other, they found out they have more in common than they thought. This story is a little bit like th...