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Women accidentally switched at birth raised as sisters by both families

The babies were switched at birth, the hospital realized their error when they were three, and they were raised as sisters ever since.

Babies in hospital nursery
Babies in hospital nursery
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Caterina Alagna and Melissa Fodera are both 23-years-old and are from the same fishing village in Sicily.

They've literally been friends since birth, almost sister-like, because when the girls were born, the hospital accidentally mixed them up and gave them to the other's parents.


When the hospital realized their error and informed their parents, they were swapped back at the age of three, but then both families decided on an unusual course of action for the girls: raise them together.

According to The Times, the girls and both sets of families moved into the same house, and raised Caterina and Melissa as sisters.

Mauro Caporiccio wrote a book about the sisters called Sisters Forever, which was also recently released as a film. He told The Times, "The girls effectively grew up with four parents and eight grandparents, and the experiment worked… Today they are more like twins than sisters and there is a kind of love which binds the two families."

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The babies were switched at birth, the hospital realized their error when they were three, and they were raised as sisters ever since.