Twins separated in the east meet after 19 years thanks to TikTok

Amy and Ano are twins, but they just gave birth to their mother and sold into separate families.

Years later, they discovered each other by chance thanks to a TV talent show and a video on TikTok.

In investigating their past, they discovered they were among thousands of newborns in Georgia stolen from hospitals and sold, some since 2005.

They traveled from Georgia to Germany, hoping to find the lost part of the puzzle - the biological mother.

They met him in Leipzig, and in the last two years (from 2021 to 2023) they have rebuilt their history.

Mother told the twins that she was sick after birth and had fallen into a coma. When she woke up, the hospital staff told her that shortly after her birth, her little girls had died.

Learning the truth, they realized that tens of thousands of other newborns in Georgia had been taken from hospitals and sold over the decades.

Despite official efforts to investigate what happened, no one has yet paid for the crime.

How Social Media United

The story of how Amy and Ano met again begins when they were 12.

Amy Development was at the house of her godmother near the Black Sea watching her favorite television show, Georgia's Got Talent.

There was a girl dancing and she looked just like her.

Not just similar, actually identical.

Amy told her family about this, who ignored her and claimed that nothing had happened.

Everyone has a double”, her mother told her.

Seven years later, in November 2021, Amy posted a video on her blue-haired TikTok. 200km from Tbilisi, another 19-year-old, Ano Sartia, took the video from a friend.

She thought it was the best “that looked like me”.

Ano tried to find the girl on the internet, but she couldn't, so she shared the video with a university group in Whatsapp to see if anyone could help.

Someone who knew Amy saw her message and tied them to Facebook.

Amy immediately realized that Ano was the girl she saw all those years ago in Georgia's Got Talent.

During the following days, they discovered that they had a lot in common, but something was wrong.

They were both born in the Kirtskhi maternity ward that now no longer exists in western Georgia, but, according to their birth certificates, their birth dates were incompatible - they had a few weeks apart.

They couldn't be sisters. Leave her twins.

But there were many similarities.

They wanted the same music, both enjoyed dancing, and even had the same haircut.

They discovered that they had the same genetic disease, a bone condition called dysplasia.

They seemed to be discovering a mystery together. They arranged to meet again a week later, and just as Amy was approaching the top of the moving stairs at the Rusteel subway station in Tbilisi, she and Ano saw each other personally for the first time.

It was like looking in the mirror, same face, same voice. I'm her and she's me”, says Amy.

At that moment she realized that they were twins.

The two girls decided to face their families and for the first time learned the truth.

They were adopted separately, just weeks after birth in 2002. By digging deeper, the twins discovered that details in their official birth certificates, including birth dates, were wrong.

Unable to have children, Amy's mother says that a friend told her she had an unwanted child at the local hospital.

She would have to pay the doctors, but she could take her home and raise her like hers.

Ano's mother heard the same story.

None of the foster families knew that the girls were twins, and despite paying a large sum of money to adopt their daughters, they claim they did not realise it was illegal.

Georgia was going through a time of unrest, and since the hospital staff was involved, they thought it was legitimate.

None of the families discovered at what price the twins were sold.

True Trafficking of Mothers and Humanities

Amy wanted to search for their biological mother to meet her, but Ano was not safe.

Amy found a Facebook group dedicated to the reunification of Georgia's families with children suspected of having been adopted illegally in the east and shared their history.

A young woman in Germany answered that her mother had been born a twin girl at the Kirtskhi Maternity in 2002 and that despite being told that she had died, she now had doubts.

DNA tests revealed that the girl in the Facebook group was their sister and lived with their biological mother, Aza, in Germany.

Amy desperately wanted to meet Azan, but Ano was more skeptical.

The Facebook group that had used the twins, Wedzeb, means “I'm looking for” in Georgian.

There are numerous posts by mothers who were told by hospital staff that their babies were dead, but later found that the deaths were not registered and their children may still be alive.

Other posts are from “children” Like Amy and Ano, looking for their biological parents.