Separated at birth, reunited on Facebook

NEW YORK. KAZINFORM Anais Bordier and Samantha Futerman have the same laugh and the same freckled cheeks. They wear their hair the same way and have since they were babies. They share a hatred of cooked carrots, a love of the same color nail polish and the need to sleep 10 hours a day.
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The pair tease, poke and prod each other like they've grown up together, but they didn't. Neither woman knew she had an identical twin sister until less than two years ago. That's where the power of the Internet, a lot of luck and a series of "what ifs" enter the picture. I sat down with the 26-year-old sisters in Central Park recently to talk about their new book "Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited," which chronicles their thoroughly modern reunion. Bordier, who grew up in Paris, is an aspiring fashion designer who was studying in London. On a Saturday in December 2012, while she was on a bus, a friend sent her a screen shot of a YouTube video featuring Futerman, who is an actress. "I'm automatically thinking, 'Oh, who posted a video of me on YouTube?' " she said with a laugh. The resemblance was uncanny. When she got home, she looked again and realized it wasn't her but a girl who looked exactly like her who lived in the United States. She looked for credits on the video to find the woman's name but couldn't find anything, so she dropped the matter, CNN reports. That was until the same friend who sent the screen shot said he saw the girl from the video in a movie trailer, also on YouTube, about a month later. Bordier's investigative instincts kicked into overdrive. She learned Futerman's name and discovered they shared a birthday and were both adopted in South Korea. "I stalk her a little bit more, learn that she was actually born in the same port city in Korea, and yes, started looking through all her pictures." She got up her nerve and decided to contact Futerman via Facebook, sending her a friend request and a message. For full version go to

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