WE ARE FAMILY:

Reunited, Feels So Good: Twin sisters separated as infants, find each other at 20 (Olivia Winslow, March 4, 2003, Newsday)

Tamara, who grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Adriana, who hails from Valley Stream, discovered through sheer chance just days after they turned 20 that they are twin sisters who were separated at birth. And for three years, they have been attending college on Long Island just a few miles from each other.

"I feel like I have known her my whole life," Tamara said Monday before a half-dozen TV cameras and reporters from local and national media who had descended on Hofstra University to hear the twins' amazing story.

It begins back in November. A friend of Adriana's ended up at Tamara's 20th-birthday celebration and talked and talked about how much Tamara looked like this friend of his. This friend told her how this girl she resembled so much was born in Mexico, as Tamara knew she had been, and also had celebrated a birthday recently.

"I was curious," Tamara said. That led to an e-mail communication between the two students, and it was then that Adriana e-mailed her picture to Tamara. "I was shocked. She has my face," Tamara said.

So, here's the question: why would you tell everyone when you could mess with their heads instead? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 9, 2003 6:32 AM