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Baby Daughters Chapter Summary

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As the book goes on the next chapter I found intriguing was chapter seven. The authors start he chapter off by telling a story of two healthy baby girls who were switched at birth. Both grew up to have beautiful full-filling lives, but the mother’s harbored suspicion since the day they were brought home that their daughters were not theirs. One of the mothers years and years later decided to confront the situation and discovered that her daughter that she brought home was not hers. However, the interesting thing about thing this story is that the daughters physically resembled their biological families more than their adoptive families. Traits like smacking their gum, being blunt and terse, and fingernail biting attributed to the traits seen
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