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Switched at Birth Girls Want to Stay With Wrong Moms (1090L)

Notes on my thoughts,

Yuliya finally took her search to the local police who managed to trace her

reactions and questions as I

biological daughter living just a few miles away with Irina's natural parents.

read:

"It was true," Yuliya remembered. "Their daughter, Anya, was blond and looked

just like me and my ex-husband. And our daughter was dark-skinned and had

dark hair and looked like the other father. He's a Tajik, and she looked just like

him."

"Suddenly my whole world turned upside down and inside out,'' she recalled.

While the girls admit that they were happy to have found each other, neither one

wants to leave the family they grew up with even though they are not their

biological parents.

"It's terrible for both of them," Yuliya told the BBC. "They've grown up with

one set of parents, now they've found out they have a different mother and

father. Neither child wants to leave their home. Irina keeps saying to me: 'Mum,

please don't give me away!' I comfort her by saying: 'I would never do anything

against your wishes. Nothing has changed. I'm still your mother.''

While both families are getting to know each other and are becoming closer,

they're suing the hospital and demanding almost $160,000 in damages.

Stories of babies being switched at birth are rare. In 1953, a mix up occurred at

Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner, Ore. It was only years later, in May

2009, that the now 56-year- old women discovered they were switched as

babies.

DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon learned about the

mistake from an 86-year-old woman who was a former neighbor.

The former neighbor said that one of the girls' mothers, Marjorie Angell, insisted

back in 1953 that she had been given the wrong baby after nurses returned from

bathing them. Her concerns were ignored. With both sets of parents dead, the

Reed and Angell siblings compared notes and family stories, learning that

rumors of a mix-up had been around for years. Kay Rene Reed decided to get

their DNA tested, and that confirmed the mistake.

They both say they just have to move forward with their lives now, and they

celebrated their latest birthday together.

Hasan L. Good Morning American. Available online at Good Morning America. Retrieved October 25, 2011.

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