I am her and she is me," Ano said of meeting her twin, Amy, at Twin girls separated at birth in a Georgia hospital have TikTok to thank for their reunion. In November , a friend of year-old Ano Sartania sent the teen a TikTok video of a girl with blue hair getting her eyebrow pierced.
The video not only uncovered a decades-long family mystery, but also shed light on illegal child trafficking, the BBC reported on Jan. Using a university WhatsApp group chat, the girls were eventually able to meet after a mutual friend connected them through Facebook. Seven years earlier, Amy competed on Georgia's Got Talent. Sartania had been watching the popular television show at her godmother's house near the Black Sea when Amy was shown dancing on the series.
I am her and she is me," Sartania said. The girls learned that they were both born at Kirtskhi maternity hospital in western Georgia, however, the hospital no longer exists. Still, Sartania and Ano continued to dig, and eventually confronted their respective families, learning that they had indeed been adopted as babies in Ano said she was "angry and upset with my family, but I just wanted the difficult conversations to be over so that we could all move on.
Their adoptive mothers said they were unable to have children and both paid undisclosed amounts of money for the infants. Because the purchase was made at a hospital, they believed it was legal. The girls later found their mother Aza who lives in Germany through another Facebook group, learning that Aza went into a coma after the delivery, and when she woke up, she was told her daughters had died.
Journalist Tamuna Museridze, who started the Facebook group that helped the family reunite, estimated that the black market baby trafficking in Georgia took place from the early s to , the BBC reported. It was systemic," Museridze said. The twins are not close with their birth mother, but still keep in touch. Human Interest Real People. By Angel Saunders Angel Saunders. People Editorial Guidelines. Military Couple Takes Twins to E. All comments are subject to our Community Guidelines. Related Articles.
