HEPPNER, Oregon–

Once upon a time, 56 years ago to be exact, there were two beautiful little baby girls born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in the small Eastern Oregon town of Heppner. The first baby was DeeAnn Angell of Fossil, Oregon and the second was Kay Rene Reed of Condon, Oregon.

Moving forward 56 years into the future, to the present day, and you’ll find both women happy and well adjusted to their adult lives. But one day last year, Bobby Reed, the brother of Kay Rene Reed received an urgent call from an elderly woman who was once both a mutual friend of Bobby and Kay’s mother and also a former neighbor of the Angell family (All four parents are now deceased).

At a meeting between the two the old woman said she had to get something off her chest. She told a story of how before her death, Marjorie Angell (DeeAnn Angell mother) had insisted that back in 1953, after the baby girls had been bathed, that they had been returned to the wrong parents and for the 56 years since both women had been living as members of the other’s biological family.

The old lady had said that Marjorie Angell had always believed a mistake had been made back in 1953, but naturally at that time there was no such thing as DNA testing and therefore, no way to prove which baby was which. Now, with the advances in technology and DNA the hospital mix-up was 100% confirmed. Each woman had been living the other’s life.

The moral of the story: If you want that car they say you should lick the door handle. Why not lick the baby’s armpit?

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