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At 72, two women learn they were switched at birth
EAGAN, Minn. - Denice Juneski and Linda Jourdeans struggle to even come up with a word for the bond they share.
Sisters? Cousins? Nothing seems to apply.
There's no playbook, after all, for two women in their 70s who've just found out they were switched at birth.
"It's a crazy thing," Denice says. "People just automatically assume they got the right family."
Only a few weeks have passed since Denice and Linda learned they didn't, as infants, go home with the right family.
In the journey that brought them to this strange place, Denice, who lives in Eagan, took the first step.
Already an ancestry buff, the 72-year-old grandmother submitted DNA to the genealogy website 23andMe, hoping to learn more about her health history.
A few weeks later, when her list of DNA relatives arrived, she was taken aback.
"I didn't match anybody," she said. Actually, Denice matched several people, but not one name among them she'd ever heard of.
Denice took the test a second time.
Same result.
"Either 23andMe made a mistake," Denice concluded, "or I was switched at birth."
But if Denice had grown up in someone else's family, who had grown up in hers?
The answer came from 40 miles away, in Hammond, Wisconsin, after Linda's niece noticed Denice on her own DNA report...
At 72, two women learn they were switched at birth | kare11.com
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I'd be really ticked if I grew up poor and my real parents were rich.
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I can't imagine how shocking that would be
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Originally Posted by
A.J.
That's crazy!
I wonder how many times it happens and no one ever knows?
It was the theme of a TV episode in the 60's. The nurse "knew" the baby belonged to the nice parents because it was peaceful and quiet. The other mother's baby was crying all the time.
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I really don't want to think it's happened often and on purpose.
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Originally Posted by
Femme*
I really don't want to think it's happened often and on purpose.
Systems should be better these days, and with DNA we can actually check. But humans are humans and make mistakes. If mums gave birth at home it wouldn't happen :)
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