A dying Romanian woman’s deathbed confession shocked her entire community when she revealed she sold one of her son’s identical twin boys 30 years ago and pretended he died after birth.
Teodora Maria will never forget the day she gave birth to identical twin boys Nicolae and Alexandru at local hospital in Slatina, in south-west Romania's Olt County.
At just 19-years-old, she was beyond excited to be a new mom to identical twins. But her heart was crushed the very next day when her mother-in-law told her that Alexandru had unexpectedly died.
According to Daily Mail, without seeing the body or any paperwork on her baby boy’s death, Teodora put her full trust in her mother-in-law, who promised to handle everything.
It wasn’t until last week—30 years later—that Teodora’s mother-in-law, 73-year-old Maria Maria, confessed to a priest on her deathbed that she lied to her son and daughter-in-law.
Before the little boy was born, Maria had hatched a plot with her other daughter-in-law, Niculina Maria, who worked at the hospital, to sell Alexandru for profit to a desperate childless couple.
After arranging the fake adoption, the pair kept their secret for several decades, while Nicolae grew up without his brother.
Now Nicolae, who eventually became a priest and started his own family, is launching his own social media campaign to find the identical twin brother he never knew.
“I have often spoken to people who told me they had seen me somewhere that I never was. I believe they must have seen my twin brother and mistaken him for me,” he said.
This is great news for Nicolae, who is circulating his own photo around social media sites in hopes that his brother will realize how similar they look.
“It means that even now we must look similar and I'm hoping that if he sees my picture, he will recognize himself and get in touch. Or if not at least somebody that knows him will contact me,” he said.
