May 13, 2009
56 years later
On a spring day in 1953, two babies were born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in the Eastern Oregon town of Heppner — DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon. The girls would grow up, get married, have kids of their own and become grandparents. Then, last summer, Kay Rene’s brother, Bobby Reed, got a call from an 86-year-old woman who had known his mother and had also lived next door to the Angell family in Fossil.
“She said she had something she had to get off her chest,” Bobby Reed said in an interview with the East Oregonian newspaper of Pendleton, which reported the story Sunday.
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This story reminds me of that amazing This American Life switched-at-birth episode, where the mother of one of the switchees knew about it the whole time, and only came clean when the kids were in their early forties.
Lucy, I had the same thought. Stories like this make me sad.
umm… SWISTERS!!