For most of their lives, they did not know of each other or know much about each other's existence. The adoptive mother in the US realized there was a twin and decided she was going to try to make it her mission to reunite them. "The story is not the twin reunion story that you may be seeing on TV," says author Lisa Kogan.
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
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