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They Were Switched at Birth—and Didn’t Find Out for 50 Years

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?

An Ancestry.com test and some online sleuthing revealed a secret five decades old, a lawsuit says.

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Emily Shugerman

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Senior Reporter

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