The Twins Accidentally Switched at Birth And Sent Home With The Wrong Parents

FKN WOOPS. Two mothers give birth to twins on the same night at the same hospital. They take those twins home, and each raise what they assume are their non-identical twin boys. But 25 years later, through total chance, the young men discover there is someone who looks exactly like each of them living in the same city. Yep - two sets of twins had been mixed up at the hospital when they were born, and it turns out they had been identical all along, it's just that they were sent home with the wrong brother...

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

READ: The New York Times article that broke the story in 2015: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brothers-of-bogota.html

READ: Nancy Segal's brilliant book about what the case teaches us, written with Yesika Montoya https://www.booktopia.com.au/accidental-brothers-nancy-l-segal/book/9781250101907.html

LISTEN: The interview with Nancy Segal about what twin studies tell us about how nature and nurture work together to form identity https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705487258/what-twins-can-tell-us-about-who-we-are

WATCH: Video of the twins meeting for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEavQied1U

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