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Posted on 04/15/2017 1:25:15 PM PDT by Gamecock
A doctor at a fertility clinic in the Mississippi capital of Jackson has made a startling revelation concerning a couple who sought treatment at the center. The married pair, who cannot be named to due to patient confidentiality restrictions, had been struggling to conceive and came to the clinic to take part in the IVF program.
“During the in vitro fertilization process, we take a DNA sample from both the male and female to get a profile of their genetic backgrounds,” the doctor involved told Mississippi Herald, whose name must also be suppressed to protect the identities of the patients.
“It’s just a routine thing, and we wouldn’t normally check to see if there was a relationship between the two samples, but in this case the lab assistant involved was shocked by the similarity of each profile.” The lab assistant summoned the doctor, who knew almost instantly that the patients must have been related.
“My first reaction was that they must have been less-closely related; perhaps they were first cousins, which does happen sometimes. However, looking closer at the samples, I noticed there were way too many similarities.” The doctor consulted the patient’s files, and noted with shock that both had the exact same birth dates listed in 1984. “With this in mind, I was convinced that both patients were fraternal twins.”
The doctor now had a dilemma on his hands: did the married couple already know that they were twins, and had yet still married and now hoped to conceive a child together? Or were they blissfully unaware of the situation. “It was a difficult subject to raise, but I had to discuss it with them,” said the doctor.
During their next appointment at the clinic, the doctor did his best to break the news gently. “They burst out laughing when I asked them if they knew they were twins,” he said. “The husband said that a lot of people remarked on the fact that they shared the same birthdays, and looked similar to each other, but he said it was just a funny coincidence and that the couple were definitely not related. The poor man had no idea.”
After the doctor insisted that the DNA evidence proved the pair were twins, the couple started to take him more seriously. “The wife kept pleading with me to admit I was joking, and I wish that I was, but they had to know the truth,” said the doctor.
Once the news had sunk in, the doctor tried to establish how the twin brother and sister had unknowingly wed each other. “From what we were able to piece together, the biological parents of the couple had died in a car crash when the couple were infants, and they had no close family willing to adopt them. They’d been taken into state care, and were adopted out to separate families. Due to a filing error, neither foster family had ever been told that their adopted child had a twin.”
The doctor explained that the couple had met during college, and a relationship between the pair soon flourished. “They were attracted to each other due to their similarities,” said the doctor. “The fact that they’d both been adopted, after their parents had died, meant they’d both experienced a similar childhood, and they felt they could really connect with each other. If only they had known the truth, it could have saved them so much pain later on.”
For now, the couple are reported to be considering the future of their relationship. “I really hope they can work something out,” said the doctor. “For me, it’s a particularly unusual case because my job is all about helping couples conceive a child. This is the first time in my career that I’ve been glad I haven’t succeeded in that regard.”
From a legal standpoint, marriage between siblings in Mississippi is prohibited and subject to a prison term of up to 10 years. However, the maximum fine is only $500, which critics have claimed encourages marriage between siblings or close relatives. In this case, however, it is believed the couple involved will not face charges due to the unique circumstances of their case.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
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The family maintains that he never knew Virginia.
I think being related to the infamous requires us to open the skeleton closet and shove them in and lock the door.
At the very least, they should repeat the tests to make sure that there wasn’t a screw up at the lab.
As for keeping the doctor’s name secret, there aren’t that many fertility experts in Jackson.
I personally know of a brother/sister pair who got together and conceived a child. Needless to say, their parents were embarrassed by the whole thing. They split up, the sister took the child to another state for a new start. The brother has been through a couple failed marriages since then. Messed up family.
Not their fault.
I would say stay married. They did not grow up brother or sister. It was an honest outcome and neither schemed anything here. Further they cant have kids so theres no genetic concern there.
“normal Alabama situation”
Wrong.
There was a pair of identical twins on a game show ages ago—like “To Tell the Truth”—separated at birth. They became friends in their twenties, and soon discovered they were identical twins. The coincidences were countless. They both used the same toothpaste—from Sweden.
I thought so too. Seems more like a cheesy movie script, especially the details.
Ha, yep. In my case, also wedge a chair under the doorknob.
Lesson: If you’re ever getting involved with somebody, and you both have the same birth date, and you’re both adopted, make sure you’re not twins before things progress very far.
Bill Blythe died in Missouri while driving back to Arkansas from Chicago. There seems little doubt that he and Clinton’s mother were married, although he was still married to another woman at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jefferson_Blythe_Jr.
While we are at it - Chelsea and Webb.
Bill Clinton’s DNA profile may already be public record, since it was used by the Special Prosecutor when he was President.
I have no idea if that story is true. I’ve heard that it came from an unreliable source but I’m not sure.
Someone from Mississippi would know better than I.
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