Best friends reunite 16 years later when their daughters meet in college The two found each other after their daughters became best friends in college.

 -- Two long-lost best friends were reunited for the first time in 16 years after their daughters became best friends in college.

Naima Souissi and Saida Chehbouni cried as they embraced for the first time in over a decade when they met up in New York City on Monday.

"I missed you so much," Souissi said. Chehbouni told ABC News that she thought of Souissi as "my best friend and my family."

Their daughters, Nissma Bencheikh, 19, and Roaya Jannatipour, 18, met in 2016 when they were both freshmen at the University of California, Berkeley. The two became fast friends after realizing they had a lotBencheikh said of her reaction to the discovery. "How often do you find out that one of your best friends as a young adult you actually have baby pictures with that you don't even remember?"

The two even found out that their mothers went to college together and were pregnant with them at the same time.

Sixteen years ago, life circumstances separated the two best friends, after Jannatipour's family moved from Canada to Irvine, California, and Bencheikh's family relocated to northern Virginia, putting a distance of over 2,000 miles between the families.

Jannatipour said that her mother had recently been trying to find Bencheikh's mother on Facebook, and that when the two first separated they both did not have a computer or even a phone, making it extremely difficult to keep