Georgian student Elene Deisadze was browsing TikTok in 2022 when she stumbled across the profile of a girl, Anna Panchulidze, who looked exactly like her.
Months later, after chatting and becoming friends, they both separately learnt they were adopted, and last year decided to take a DNA test.
It revealed they were not only related, but identical twins.
“I had a happy childhood, but now my entire past felt like a deception,” Anna, an English student at university, told AFP.
Far from an innocent case of separation at birth, the sisters are among tens of thousands of Georgian children who were illegally sold in a decades-long baby trafficking scandal.
The scheme, uncovered by journalists and families searching for lost relatives, saw babies stolen from…
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