By Ella McLay
As one of the “twins,” I felt it was my responsibility to explain. Abby and I are not actually twins. We are siblings, so that part is not a lie, but we just look very similar. After we were born, my mother was only 98% sure that we were identical twins. But then came the ancestry test. We provided this company with our DNA and fully expected to receive results that told us the two tests were either the same person or identical twins. But the results came in…
According to Ancestry.com, we are two different people with different DNA. It was shocking to us, as I am sure it will be for the student body. This is very upsetting information, and I do feel like all seventeen years of my life have been a lie. So I apologize for the unintentional deceit, but this is a new reality we will all have to adjust to.

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