But, the two families came to the conclusion that the girls were not related after seeing that the name of their father did not match on their documents and the name of their mother must have been an error.
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Their documents did not suggest that they had a twin, but the taxi driver who drove Blackman’s parents from the orphanage asked, “What about the other one, the sister?” This prompted the parents to write down the girls’ names and track down the Falks. The twins wrote a book about their story called Identical Strangers, which as you may have figured out, discusses their striking similarities, both mentally and physically.Įmilie Falk and Lin Backman were both adopted from an orphanage in Semaramg, Indonesia by Swedish couples. They wanted to meet up with the man who led the study and eventually he granted them an interview, but didn’t apologize for separating them, as they hoped he would. However, Paula and Elyse eventually found each other, 35 years after they were separated. After New York made it a requirement for adoption agencies to keep twins together, the head of the study decided that the study would be controversial so he had its data locked away at Yale University until 2066. They were part of a secret and now controversial study in which a renowned psychologist had convinced an adoption agency to send twins to different homes so that they could be studied to assess the influence of nature versus nurture.
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein were separated at birth when their mentally ill mother put them up for adoption.
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