Identical Twins Separated at Birth that Were Reunited

Barbara Herbert and Dianne Goodship

After being separated at birth, Barbara Herbert and Dianne Goodship were finally reunited. After the suicide of their biological mother, both girls were adopted by British families. While one lady was a polish nun, the other was a Michigan housewife. That seems to be where the differences end and the similarities begin. Although the women were raised separately, the way their lives have paralleled is truly amazing!

At 14 years of age both girls stopped attending school. Then at 15yrs. they both had an accident were they fell down some stairs and hurt their ankles. That is nothing however, compared to what happened next. At 16 years old, both women met their future husbands at a dance at their Town Hall. The ladies had each taken jobs in their local government. Both suffered a miscarriage in the same month and then gave birth to 2 boys and a daughter, all without ever knowing each other.

When the two women were reunited, they were both wearing similar cream colored outfits and velvet jackets. After talking for a while they discovered that they both enjoyed drinking their coffee cold and they had a habit of pushing their noses up with the palms of their hands, a habit that each woman had nicknamed "squidging". I find this all to be truly unbelievable! But these things are just the tip of the iceberg.

The twins were studied at the University of Michigan's center for twin and adoption research which was founded by Thomas J. Bouchard Ph.D. There, it was discovered that there were medical similarities in the woman as well. The women were both diagnosed with heart murmurs and thyroid problems. During the I.Q. test it was found that the ladies were only separated by ONE point! Psychological tests showed that the Identical Twins also shared similar personalities.

Is it possible that parents don't mold their children as much as we would like to think? Maybe DNA plays a bigger role in how a people turn out than originally thought.