Chance Meeting Reunites Twins
Twins
Andrea And Marielisa Romo
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A chance meeting has reunited identical twin sisters who were separated at birth nearly 15 years ago.
The Mother of the girls, Petita Penaherrera, claims she did not know she had twins until she and her daughter Andrea
came face-to-face with Marielisa Romo four months ago in the southern Ecuadorean town of Milagros.
Andrea and Marielisa have the same dark eyes, the same hair, the same everything.
Marielisa was accompanied by Roberto Romo and Isabel Garcia, the doctor couple who had delivered the twin babies.
Romo and Garcia could not be reached for comment but told Ecuavisa television that the biological mother knew about the twins but only wanted to keep one of them.
“The nurse said out loud, ’Congratulations you have two girls”’ Garcia told Ecuavisa. “The woman, like every adolescent who is not ready for motherhood, just cried and cried."
Marielisa, who was raised by Romo and Garcia, has said she does not want to leave the only parents she knows.
“They have raised me well, they have respected me and helped me,” she said in a newspaper report.
“If they love me so much,” the girl said of her biological parents, “let them stop (the lawsuit) and tell me that they won’t do anything against the doctors.”
