{"id":11286,"date":"2026-03-10T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:55:53","slug":"when-i-was-5-police-told-my-parents-my-twin-had-died-68-years-later-i-met-a-woman-who-looked-exactly-like-me-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=11286","title":{"rendered":"When I Was 5, Police Told My Parents My Twin Had Died \u2013 68 Years Later, I Met a Woman Who Looked Exactly Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"182\"><strong data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"180\">I Thought My Twin Sister Was Gone Forever\u2014Then I Found a Family Secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"332\">When I was five, my twin sister, Ella, disappeared. Her toys vanished, her name was erased from our home, and my parents never spoke of her again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"599\">Seventy years later, at 73, I saw a woman in a caf\u00e9 who looked exactly like me. Her name was Margaret. After checking old records and a DNA test, I discovered the truth: she wasn\u2019t my twin\u2026 she was my\u00a0<strong data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"551\">older sister<\/strong>, the one my mother had been forced to forget.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"665\">After decades of silence, our family story finally made sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I Thought My Twin Sister Was Gone Forever\u2014Then I Found a Family Secret When I was five, my twin sister, Ella, disappeared. Her toys vanished, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=11286\" title=\"When I Was 5, Police Told My Parents My Twin Had Died \u2013 68 Years Later, I Met a Woman Who Looked Exactly Like Me\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11288,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions\/11288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}