6 Year Old Tells Mom She Has An Identical Twin At School, Mom Breaks Down When She Sees DNA Result | HO

Days passed in a blur. Natalie cleaned obsessively, cooked too much food, called her sister just to hear a familiar voice. Nothing could distract her from the ticking clock. Then, finally, the email arrived: “DNA Test Results: Ava Coleman & Ila Reed.” Natalie’s hands shook as she opened it, her heart pounding. The result: “Probability of full sibling match: 99.999987%. Relationship: Monozygotic twins (identical).”

Natalie dropped her laptop and sank to the floor, sobbing. She hadn’t cried when they told her her other twin was gone—back then, she was too numb with grief. But now, the truth broke her open. Ava was her daughter—her real daughter, her blood, her baby. She had been alive all this time, lost in the foster system.

Natalie’s mind raced back to the NICU, the confusion, the nurse’s panicked face, the way she’d only held one baby. Ava had never died—she’d been taken, by accident, by negligence, or perhaps something else. Natalie didn’t know how, but she knew one thing: she was going to get her daughter back.

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