A fascinating book! Nature vs. nurture is always an interesting question to ponder. There is more to ponder after reading this book. Although there are many examples of identical twins being separated at birth and then reunited later in life in the book, the main focus is on two sets of identical twins born in Colombia in 1988. Due to an unknown slip-up, one boy in each set was switched and both would be brought up as fraternal twins. One set of twins grew up in a city while the home of the other set was in a very remote village (150 miles apart) where life required a lot of work and effort.
The twins didn't find out about the truth until they were 25. It was a woman who was friends with one of the twins who just couldn't believe she had mistaken a stranger to be a good friend.
A very readable book about how families can be disrupted by a mistake in a nursery decades before.
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