Accidental brothers : the story of twins exchanged at birth and the power of nature and nurture
Book |
First edition. |
St. Martin's Press,
New York :
2018.
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About
Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated "fraternal" twins--Jorge and Carlos, who were raised in the lively city of Bogotá; and William and Wilber, who were raised in the remote rural village of La Paz, 150 miles away. Everyone's life unraveled when one of the twins--William--was mistaken by a young woman for his real identical twin, Jorge. Her "discovery" led to the truth--that the alleged twins were not twins at all, but rather unrelated individuals who ended up with the wrong families.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781250101907 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Formatted Contents Note:
Dubious doubles -- Familiar strangers -- Miles of memories -- The friends' investigation -- Revelations -- Finding the Colombian four -- Discoveries -- Another world -- Different versions of the same song -- "Twinbred" cultures -- Twins, pairs and pedigrees -- Circle game to band of brothers.