{"id":413125,"date":"2024-01-26T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/twins-separated-at-birth-lived-in-same-city-reunited-after-19-years\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T03:15:00","slug":"twins-separated-at-birth-lived-in-same-city-reunited-after-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/twins-separated-at-birth-lived-in-same-city-reunited-after-19-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins, Separated At Birth, Lived In Same City. Reunited After 19 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Twins, Separated At Birth, Lived In Same City. Reunited After 19 Years\" alt=\"Twins, Separated At Birth, Lived In Same City. Reunited After 19 Years\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-01\/0ls737h8_georgia-twins-_625x300_26_January_24.jpg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=1200,height=738\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The journey to discovery for Amy and Ano began when they were just 12 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In what could very well pass off as the real-life manifestation of Ramesh Sippy&#8217;s 1972 Bollywood blockbuster &#8216;<em>Seeta Aur Geeta<\/em>&#8216;, a remarkably similar story of separation and reunion has surfaced from the eastern European country of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Khvitia and Ano Sartania, identical twins separated at birth and unknowingly living just miles apart in Georgia, found each other through a viral TikTok video and a talent show.<\/p>\n<p>Their story, reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-68055420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>, sheds light on a much larger issue plaguing Georgia &#8211; the alarming number of babies stolen from hospitals and sold over the decades, a scandal that remains largely unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>The journey to discovery for Amy and Ano began when they were just 12 years old. Amy, engrossed in her favorite TV show, &#8216;Georgia&#8217;s Got Talent&#8217;, stumbled upon a girl dancing who bore an uncanny resemblance to her. Little did she know that the woman dancing was her long-lost sister.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" id=\"story_image_main\" class=\"lozad\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-01\/3jcnvqag_georgia-twins-_625x300_26_January_24.jpg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=1200,height=738\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption\"><span class=\"ins_instory_span_credit\">Photo Credit: facebook.com\/ana.sartania.16<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, Ano received a TikTok video featuring a woman with blue hair who looked remarkably like her. The woman in the video turned out to be her twin Amy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aza Shoni, the twins&#8217; birth mother, had fallen into a coma due to undisclosed birth complications in 2002. Gocha Gakharia, her husband made a devastating decision &#8211; to sell Ano and Amy to separate families.<\/p>\n<p>Ano was raised in Tbilisi, while Amy grew up in Zugdidi, both completely unaware of each other&#8217;s existence. Despite participating in the same dance contest at the age of 11, where onlookers noticed the striking resemblance, the truth remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Their lives continued on parallel paths until the fateful TikTok video and subsequent reunion. However, as the twins sought answers to their own separation, they uncovered a shocking reality &#8211; they were just two among thousands of babies stolen from Georgian hospitals and sold, with cases reported as recently as 2005.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC report, the incident took place two years ago on the Rustaveli Bridge in Tbilisi, Georgia&#8217;s capital, where Amy and Ano met for the first time since their separation 19 years earlier.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/identical-twins-separated-at-birth-reunite-19-years-later-through-tiktok-4934061\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The journey to discovery for Amy and Ano began when they were just 12 years old. New Delhi: In what could very well pass off as the real-life manifestation of Ramesh Sippy&#8217;s 1972 Bollywood blockbuster &#8216;Seeta Aur Geeta&#8216;, a remarkably similar story of separation and reunion has surfaced from the eastern European country of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[484727,484728,484730,484729,5638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}