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Twin Sisters: Adoptive Parents Meet in China
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Twin Sisters, two sets of parents, one American, one Norwegian, revisit the time they met in China after adopting infant girls and realized that the babies were twins. One mother worried about losing her new baby while the other worried about losing touch.
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