Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Women may be identical twins

Two Chinese women who work for the same company but in different cities believe they are identical twins after a chance encounter.

It came about after the owner of a fashion shop in Xiamen in southern China's Fujian province went to inspect a branch shop in Quangang. He was amazed to find what appeared to be a worker from his headquarters working there without his permission

"I thought she must have been dispatched from HQ, since she looked exactly the same as my other staff member," said the company owner.



When Zhuang Yanhong and Gong Jingjing, both 18, met up, it turned out they were almost identical - both even had four moles in the same place on their right hands - but their home towns were thousands of miles apart. "We even have the same features, hobbies and habits," said Zhuang Yanhong.

The pair initially thought it was just an amazing coincidence. Zhuang is an adopted child from Jiangxi, while Gong, had always thought her parents were her biological parents.

But then she got the surprising news from her parents that she too had been adopted from Jiangxi. The girls are now convinced they are twins - although Gong added: "We don't want to do DNA tests. No matter what happens, we are sisters."

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