Oregon Women Find Out They Were Switched At Birth
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: After 56 years two women in Oregon find out that they were switched at birth.
It was 1953, in Eastern Oregon, when two families welcomed their new born baby girls into the world at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Kay Rene Quails and DeeAnn Angell Shafer born on that spring day grew up in loving homes, they went on to marry, raise families of their own.
In the summer of 2008, their lives took a dramatic twist. The two women living ordinary lives were informed that they may have been switched at birth. Something that would be any parents nightmare.
Shocked by the news, the ladies agreed on DNA testing which did confirm that they had in fact been switched. They met 56 years later.
According to the Associated Press: The suspicion about the switch came when a woman who knew both their mothers called Qualls’ brother with her suspicion.
Qualls’ brother, Bobby Reed, said the 86-year-old woman knew his mother and had also lived next door to the Angell family.
“She said she had something she had to get off her chest,” he told the an Oregon Newspaper in a story published Monday. READ ENTIRE AP ARTICLE HERE
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