Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Identical Strangers – Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

At 33, Elyse Schein learned she had an identical twin who she had never met. She meets the twin and they set out to learn about their past and why they were separated by the adoption agency. In the process, they become friends with each other. Written in the voices of both Elyse and Paula, I found them sometimes grating, but their story is incredible. I can’t conceive of the heartlessness that would lead mental health professionals to separate twins “for research purposes” and then lie to them for 35 years. It is shocking that these women (and the other separated twins) are still denied access to the records of the study in which they were unwitting subjects.

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
2007
Available from Amazon

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