21-year-old Amy Khvitia and Ano Sartania discovered each other by chance in 2014 when they were twelve. Amy was watching her favorite TV show Georgia’s Got Talent. She was shocked when she saw a girl who looked exactly like her on TV. “Everyone called my mother and asked: why is Amy dancing under a different name,” the now young woman told the BBC spoke extensively with the sisters.
Video on TikTok
Amy’s adoptive mother told everyone it was just a coincidence; a double. Nothing happened for years. But in November 2021, Amy posted a video of herself with blue hair and her eyebrow piercings on TikTok. Ano’s friend forwarded the video, after which she responded with: ‘Cool that she looks like me’.
Ano became curious and started looking for her doppelgänger. She distributed the TikTok video asking if anyone knew Amy. There was a response to this and the sisters came into contact with each other. Amy immediately knew that Ano was the girl she had seen on Georgia’s Got Talent years earlier. “I’ve been looking for you for so long!” she sent to her sister. “Me too,” Ano replied.
The sisters delved into their history and discovered that they had a lot in common. But they also discovered that according to their birth certificate they could not be twins or even sisters. Their birthdays were several weeks apart.
Amy and Ano didn’t leave it at that, there were too many similarities. They both loved to dance and often had the same hairstyle in their youth. They also have the same bone condition. They decided to meet up and when they saw each other in real life, they were sure. “It was like looking in a mirror, exactly the same face, exactly the same voice. I am her and she is me,” Amy told the BBC.
They unraveled the truth about their past, including by confronting their families. It turned out that they had been adopted separately in 2002 and that their birth certificates had been forged. For Amy, it felt like her whole life had been a lie. Ano was especially angry with her adoptive parents who had always told her that she was their real daughter.
Doctors pay
Amy’s adoptive mother said she was told at the hospital that the baby was “unwanted.” They had to pay the doctors and could take her and raise her as their own child. The girls’ new families didn’t know they had a twin sister.
Amy and Ano went looking for their biological mother to ask her if she consciously wanted to get rid of her babies in 2002. In a Facebook group with 230,000 members that is committed to reuniting Georgian families with children suspected of being among the were illegally adopted at birth, a young woman responded that she is probably a sister of the twins. She lives with their mother in Germany. They did a DNA test and it turned out to be true. The sisters recently decided to travel to Germany where they met.
For Amy and Ano, meeting their biological mother was emotional, writes the BBC. She explained to the twins that she had become ill after giving birth and had fallen into a coma. When she woke up, hospital staff told her the babies had died shortly after birth.
The BBC recorded the moment of the meeting:
“I always felt like something or someone was missing in my life,” Ano told the BBC. “I always dreamed about a little girl in black who would follow me and ask me about my day.”
This involves thousands of babies
Amy and Ano’s story represents a bigger problem in Georgia. They aren’t the only ones who were stolen from the hospital and sold as babies. Hundreds of families in Georgia were reunited through the Facebook group with fellow sufferers.
Until 2005, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of children were thought to have been illegally trafficked. Some children ended up with foreign families in the US, Canada, Cyprus, Russia and Ukraine. According to the BBC, the Georgian government has indicated that it has been investigating large-scale child trafficking since 2022, but the results are still unclear.
2024-01-26 11:33:28
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