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Orphaned sisters reunite while working on same floor at Sarasota hospital
http://extra.heraldtribune.com/2015...e-working-on-same-floor-at-sarasota-hospital/
Astonishing personal and professional parallels between long-separated twins have been well documented amid lively debates on the power of nature over nurture. The connections between reunited non-twin siblings have been less scrutinized, but they are not unprecedented.
Consider the recent chance meeting of Lizzie Valverde, 35, and Katy Olson, 34. Valverde was adopted by a family in New Jersey; Olson was raised in Iowa and Florida. In 2013, they discovered each other in a creative writing class at Columbia University.
Born less than a year apart, teenagers Jordan Dickerson and Robin Jeter met for the first time since they were adopted to separate families 17 years prior. They almost literally ran across each other at a track meet in 2013 where they were competing for rival high schools in Washington, D.C.
In 2014, Emily Nappi and Mikayla Stern-Ellis traveled separately from their homes in California to New Orleans to pursue college studies at Tulane University. As freshmen, they wound up in the same dormitory; they even purchased the same fleece jacket at a Tulane Black Friday sale before they met. They discovered they were connected before conception — their biological father was a sperm donor from Colombia.
Social and behavioral scientist Nancy Segal, director of the Twin Studies Center at California State-Fullerton, has been addressing the phenomenon for decades in books and academic papers. Once soft-pedaled for its implications on “biological determinism,” the infant science of behavioral genetics has since entered the mainstream and is lately beckoning molecular biologists to explore the links between genes and human social behaviors.
“I do think that genetically based similarities,” states Segal — herself a twin — in an email to the Herald-Tribune, “are the social glue that draws and maintains these relationships.”
But on a planet of 7 billion people, how to account for the mystery of cascading events that set up an unlikely reunion of orphans, born half a world away, more than four decades ago, choosing the same profession, choosing the same hospital?
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Orphaned sisters reunite while working on same floor at Sarasota hospital
http://extra.heraldtribune.com/2015...e-working-on-same-floor-at-sarasota-hospital/
Astonishing personal and professional parallels between long-separated twins have been well documented amid lively debates on the power of nature over nurture. The connections between reunited non-twin siblings have been less scrutinized, but they are not unprecedented.
Consider the recent chance meeting of Lizzie Valverde, 35, and Katy Olson, 34. Valverde was adopted by a family in New Jersey; Olson was raised in Iowa and Florida. In 2013, they discovered each other in a creative writing class at Columbia University.
Born less than a year apart, teenagers Jordan Dickerson and Robin Jeter met for the first time since they were adopted to separate families 17 years prior. They almost literally ran across each other at a track meet in 2013 where they were competing for rival high schools in Washington, D.C.
In 2014, Emily Nappi and Mikayla Stern-Ellis traveled separately from their homes in California to New Orleans to pursue college studies at Tulane University. As freshmen, they wound up in the same dormitory; they even purchased the same fleece jacket at a Tulane Black Friday sale before they met. They discovered they were connected before conception — their biological father was a sperm donor from Colombia.
Social and behavioral scientist Nancy Segal, director of the Twin Studies Center at California State-Fullerton, has been addressing the phenomenon for decades in books and academic papers. Once soft-pedaled for its implications on “biological determinism,” the infant science of behavioral genetics has since entered the mainstream and is lately beckoning molecular biologists to explore the links between genes and human social behaviors.
“I do think that genetically based similarities,” states Segal — herself a twin — in an email to the Herald-Tribune, “are the social glue that draws and maintains these relationships.”
But on a planet of 7 billion people, how to account for the mystery of cascading events that set up an unlikely reunion of orphans, born half a world away, more than four decades ago, choosing the same profession, choosing the same hospital?
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