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Chinese women discover they were switched at birth 37 years ago

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Two women in China discovered they were switched at birth 37 years ago, with one woman, Huang Xiaolin, growing up in a comfortable government-employed family while the other, Li Hui, experienced a different path. The mix-up occurred at Qingyuan People's Hospital in Guangdong province in 1989, a time when the hospital did not use identification wristbands, relying instead on name cards. Huang Xiaolin was the first to initiate a search for her birth family after her adoptive father noticed discrepancies in her appearance and blood type. AI

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Chinese women discover they were switched at birth 37 years ago

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Zoey Zhang ·

    ‘Decades of heartbreak’: Chinese women switched at birth 37 years ago live 4km apart

    Two women who were switched at birth 37 years ago grew up just 4km apart in southern China, discovering that a hospital error had set their lives on divergent paths. Huang Xiaolin and Li Hui were born 55 minutes apart at Qingyuan People’s Hospital in Qingyuan, Guangdong province,…

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