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Separated at Birth

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The Gyms and the Twins

The Minnesota Twin Survey found 137 sets of identical twins that were separated at birth. In the 1960s, a clinical psychiatrist named Peter Newbauer worked with a Jewish adoption agency in New York to purposely separate identical twins so they could be studied later. Tom Patterson and Steve Tazumi were twins separated by a Japanese adoption agency. Debbie Melman and Sharon Possett are identical twins who met each other at the age of 45.

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