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

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Watching those twin Chinese girls reunited has made me cry!

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

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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.

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

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

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 ....

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

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

Oh dear - sat here crying my eyes out!

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

wee souls!!!!!!

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

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...

What was the surgery thing then?

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

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?

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

Not only triplets though identical triplets born to an identical triplet

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.

It does seem almost cruel.

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

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!

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.

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

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.