Twins Sold And Separated At Birth Reunite Thanks To TikTok
A 19-year-old girl from Georgia reunited with a long-lost twin sister she never knew existed because of a TikTok video.
In November 2021, Amy Khvitia posted a video of herself sporting her blue-dyed hair while getting her eyebrow pierced on TikTok, per the BBC.
Meanwhile, Ano Sartania's friends thought she had dyed her hair blue and asked her why she changed her hair color, sending her Amy's video.
To their surprise, the girl in the video was not their friend Ano.
Curious by the striking resemblance she shared with the girl on TikTok, Ano decided to track down her look-alike. She started by posting about her search on Facebook.
Interestingly, seven years prior, then-12-year-old Amy was watching "Georgia's Got Talent" at her godmother's house when she saw a girl dancing who looked exactly like her.
Young Amy mentioned it to her family at the time, but they just brushed it off.
Her mother said, "Everyone has a doppelganger."
When Amy and Ano finally connected online, Amy instantly knew that Ano was the girl she saw on "Georgia's Got Talent."
Thanks to Ano's friend who noticed their resemblance and Amy's friend who saw Ano's Facebook post, the long-lost twins got in touch and reunited at the Rustaveli station in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2021. They were 19 years old at the time.
Over the next few days, they discovered more about themselves and started to unravel the mystery of how they separated at birth.
After deciding to confront their adoptive families, they learned that they were adopted separately in 2002, just a few weeks apart.
Neither of their adoptive families reportedly knew that adopting the girls was illegal. Amy's mother was told about an unwanted baby at a local hospital. Unable to have a child, she paid a lot of money to adopt her.
Ano's mother was also told the same. They reportedly didn't realize that the adoption of the girls was illegal and thought that the hospital staff involved in the adoption were legitimate.
Two years after their reunion, the twins met their birth mother, Aza, for the first time.
Their mother explained that she fell ill after giving birth and even fell into a coma. When she woke up, the hospital staff allegedly lied to her that her babies died after birth.
Amy and Ano's story is just one among the thousands of babies in Georgia stolen from hospitals and sold for adoption.
According to the BBC, the black market for trafficking babies in the country operated between the 1970s and 2000s.
