The mother-of-three plucked up the courage to visit her and was welcomed with open arms by her mother, who showered her with hugs and kisses.ĭuring the meeting, Jenny was told by her mother she must leave suddenly because her daughter Helen would be home soon, so she returned to America intrigued by the idea of a sister. When she returned to Britain in 2003, her cousin had managed to find her biological mother’s address. So alike: Jenny and Helen said the revelation was emotionally difficult but it explained their many similarities, despite growing up apartĭisheartened she went ahead with a move to Florida, in America with her husband Sam.
Having found her birth-aunt through her birth certificate, she was told her mother did not want to meet her because ‘too much water had passed under the bridge’. Jenny, who discovered she was adopted when she was 14, began to search for her birth family in 1981. ‘We are very alike, we have the same mannerisms, we hold our coffee cups the same way, we mirror each other on the little things - even when we first met.
‘It was a huge shock to realise that I was in actual fact a twin but in many ways it made a lot of sense.
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Jenny, a former professional golfer, from Tenterden, Kent, said: ‘Our mother’s medical records showed she had had five children, but all had been home births apart from the one in December, 1948, when she had been in hospital for 11 days which must have been because she had twins.
We were brought up differently but are so alike.’ ‘For twins to be separated at birth is hugely emotional, but does go some way to explain the similarities between us. 'Difficult' discovery: Helen (right aged 18-years-old with mother) thought she was born on Apbut discovered there had been no birth that day but two babies were born on DecemJenny's birthday
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