Separated @ Birth

A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited

De: Anais Bordier, Samantha Futerman

Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller

It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19, 1987 - the exact same location and day that Anaïs was born. This propelled her to make contact - via Facebook. One message later, both girls wondered: Could they be twins? Thus begins their remarkable journey to build a relationship as sisters, continents apart.

Over Facebook, Twitter, and Skype, they learned that they shared much more than a strikingly similar appearance. Eventually, they traveled to Korea together to discover more about the land of their separation. Separated @ Birth is a story that spans the world and peels back some of the complex and emotional layers of foreign adoption.

©2014 Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman (P)2014 Tantor

Touching, heartwarming

As an identical twin, I was touched by "Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited" (2014) by identical twins Anais Bordier and Samantha Futerman. It’s is a fascinating account of South Korea twins who are adopted by White parents, one reared in France and one in the United States, with neither aware of the other’s existence. Their reunification in their late twenties is heartwarming. They do appear to go out of their way to avoid the subject of race. Narrator Emily Woo Zeller is great. Solidly recommended.