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OMG! This twin thing on BBC 1 is killing me.

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HeadFairy · 30/09/2009 21:21

Watching those twin Chinese girls reunited has made me cry!

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pattymc · 30/09/2009 21:23

just posted exactly same! so gorgeous, wish they could just stick with that story

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paisleyleaf · 30/09/2009 21:23

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TwoIfBySea · 30/09/2009 21:24

Did you think that the adoptive mothers actually resembled each other as well?

I can't imagine dts living apart at all, I'm taping this to show them tomorrow as they are always moaning people can't tell them apart.

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HeadFairy · 30/09/2009 21:37

I can't believe the adoption agency failed to tell them they were splitting up identical twins. That's so wrong surely?

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Sidge · 30/09/2009 21:42

I'm rather shallow because I was thinking not only are those girls really cute but the twin doctors are too

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sleepwhenidie · 30/09/2009 21:43

me too, sat here in floods! How on earth are they going to separate them at the end of the visit, it is going to be horrendous ....

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paisleyleaf · 30/09/2009 21:45

I hope they've got enough money to keep meeting up.

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stainesmassif · 30/09/2009 21:46

i've already shed a tear at this - when they were in the adoption agency at the beginning.

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lockets · 30/09/2009 21:48

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tryingtocookacurry · 30/09/2009 21:49

Oh dear - sat here crying my eyes out!

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paisleyleaf · 30/09/2009 21:49

I missed the very beginning....is DH right that they were conjoined? - or did he mishear that?

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frumpygrumpy · 30/09/2009 21:49

wee souls!!!!!!

Lovely, lovely families to be so united on this though. Such a hard situation.

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sleepwhenidie · 30/09/2009 21:53

no not conjoined, but adopted separately (in China) when they were small babies. The two families actually saw each other when finishing off paperwork at the adoption agency and queried why they looked so alike but the agency denied that they were sisters. One went to Norway, the other to California and DNA tests done shortly after proved they were twins. Families stayed in touch, reunited them at age 6 (neither speaking the others language) but they bonded instantly...

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paisleyleaf · 30/09/2009 21:57

What was the surgery thing then?

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argento · 30/09/2009 21:58

It's had me in tears too, how awful having to separate them again

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HeadFairy · 30/09/2009 21:59

Damn, work got in the way, I'm going to have to iplayer it, but tell me, did it end happily or will I need the kleenex?

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argento · 30/09/2009 22:00

There were triplets born by c-section at the beginning - their mother was also a triplet.

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HeadFairy · 30/09/2009 22:01

Not only triplets though identical triplets born to an identical triplet

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nigglewiggle · 30/09/2009 22:04

I couldn't believe that they kept them separated, knowing very early on that they were twin sisters. I know it would have been difficult for one family, but not nearly as difficult as this is for the little girls. I can't believe that it "never occurred to them" as the American adoptive mother said. My heart is breaking for them.

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paisleyleaf · 30/09/2009 22:05

It does seem almost cruel.

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argento · 30/09/2009 22:06

The bit about the brothers with heart disease despite their lifestyles has strengthened DP's argument that he doesn't need to give up smoking because everyone in his family smokes and none of them got cancer so he obviously has good genes

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penona · 30/09/2009 22:06

Have just sobbed over the twins split up. Keep thinking about my two, would be so sad.

Missed the triplet bit though. I didn't think identical triplets were possible - it was always identical twins and one other? Interesting, will have to watch on iPlayer!

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sleepwhenidie · 30/09/2009 22:10

it did end sort of happily headfairy, insofar as they have been reunited so young and will stay in touch (rather than not knowing about/knowing each other ever or until grown up) - but they do have to live with their adoptive families so far apart ....definitely get the kleenex out!

nigglewiggle, I know what you mean, but can you imagine being the parent who gave up such a longed for child once you had finally got her? It can't have been an easy or short process and how would you decide who would have twins and who would give up their child (because that is what they were to the mums, even after a short time together)? V tough one.

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nigglewiggle · 30/09/2009 22:17

I know, but I hope I would have put my needs second.

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Nancy66 · 30/09/2009 22:39

Oh god that was a complete blubfest - those Chinese girls were adorable. It was heartbreaking watching them having to say goodbye to one another.

Niggle - like you, I can't help thinking that one family should make the sacrifice and move to either Norway/USA so they can grow up together. But easy for me to say - wouldn't want to be the one making the decision. both mothers did seem lovely and very sensitive to the issue though.