Six sisters, who were adopted into different families, are searching for their 15-year-old brother, Giovanni.
“He’s the missing piece,” Catrina Palmer, 25, tells TODAY.com.
Recently, Palmer and her siblings made a TikTok video in the hopes that it might lead them to Giovanni. In the clip, the sisters share that he was adopted by the doctors who delivered him at Tampa General Hospital on February 14, 2009.
The TikTok went viral with nearly 50 million views, and now Internet sleuths are determined to track Giovanni down.
“We have so many people helping us, which is pretty cool,” Palmer says.
Palmer said her biological parents struggled with addiction. Palmer and her sister Gigi, 22, were adopted after multiple foster placements and raised in Florida. Years later, they learned about the existence of sisters Alexia, 20, Anna, 19, Monica, 18, and Bella, 13.
In 2019, after connecting on social media, the girls met for the first time.
“We were all raised quite differently, but in terms of personalities, we’re so similar. We even have the same mannerisms,” Palmer says. “After knowing each other for a few minutes, we were snuggled up and talking about everything. It just instantly felt like home.”
According to Palmer, she and her sisters have a relationship with their biological parents, who are now sober and “staying out of trouble.”
“They own a home and two dogs,” Palmer says, proudly.
Though the sisters are spread out across the country — Florida, New York and West Virginia — they are in constant communication on a group text.
“If someone is having a hard day, we’re all on FaceTime cheering her up,” Palmer says. “We’re making up for lost time.”
Palmer says they’ve received a few tips about Giovanni’s whereabouts — and one in particular seems promising. She’s trying not to get to get her hopes up too high.