Two babies born at the same hospital, on the same day, given to the wrong parents meet 56 years later.
On a spring day in 1953, two baby girls were born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in eastern Oregon. They grew up happily, got married, had kids of their own and became grandparents. Then last summer their lives were turned upside down when Kay Rene Reed Qualls found out that she and DeeAnn Angell Shafer were switched at birth.
They recently met for the first time and underwent DNA tests after a woman who knew both their mothers called Qualls' brother with her suspicion.
The two have become friends and celebrated their May 3 birthday together. Recently, Qualls introduced Shafer to her work colleagues, calling her "my swister."
"I'm trying to move forward at look at the positive," Shafer said. "You can't look back. It just drives you crazy."
Source: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_switched_at_birth
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8:37 AMLabels: Local News