Don't I Know You From Somewhere??
- added December 31, 2007
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- mattbrawn
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After being given up for adoption at birth, identical twin sisters Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein spent their first 35 years in total ignorance of the other's existence.
Being unknowingly separated at birth, they were given to different families as part of a US experiment to discover how identical twins would react being raised in different family environments.
Neither set of adoptive parents knew the babies were part of a study or in fact that they were part of a matching pair.
The research project took place under the guidance of a leading US child psychologist with the co-operation of a prestigious New York adoption agency Louise Wise Services.
I feel kind of sorry for the sisters, through being a part of this research they've lost out on so much of the intimacy of being a twin.
Being unknowingly separated at birth, they were given to different families as part of a US experiment to discover how identical twins would react being raised in different family environments.
Neither set of adoptive parents knew the babies were part of a study or in fact that they were part of a matching pair.
The research project took place under the guidance of a leading US child psychologist with the co-operation of a prestigious New York adoption agency Louise Wise Services.
I feel kind of sorry for the sisters, through being a part of this research they've lost out on so much of the intimacy of being a twin.
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Hmmm, I wonder if....
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My dad was adopted in "the dark ages"--the 1940s. He's had tons of people mistake him for another person, so I wonder if he might not be a twin...
Adoption has an interesting psychological effect of the children being adopted--but for these women, on top of that, lay on having a twin. Wow. I wonder what the study found.
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