TIL of Tetragametic Chimerism, which occurs when a woman is pregnant with twins and one embryo dies, and the other embryo absorbs the twin’s cells. Also it’s potential impact on DNA tests, which lead to Lydia Fairchild being accused of fraud and not being the biological mother of her children.

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1. When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.

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2. This happened to Dwight

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3. IIRC they matched the kids against her liver or something like that. I believe she had other internal tissues that still didn’t match.

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