In 2002, 26 year old single mother, Lydia Fairchild, found herself facing hard times. She decided to apply for government assistance, which required a DNA test to prove that she and the babies’ father, Jamie Townsend, were the parents of the children. It was just a standard procedure. But the results of the test were absolutely shocking: Jamie was confirmed as the father, but the tests showed that Lydia was not the mother of her own children. But how could that be?

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Chimerism: Definition, Symptoms, Testing, Diagnosis, and More

She's Her Own Twin - ABC News

My Unborn Twin is the Mother of my Children | Chimera: The Twin Inside Me | Only Human

The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002) | Embryo Project Encyclopedia

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