Covering the Coverage: BBC Compares Real-Life ‘Separated At Birth’ Drama To Telenovela Plot

Bored out of our minds by a slow news day, we came across this odd story about a pair of small-town Ecuadorian parents suing a clinic for separating their identical twins at birth. The parents claim they never saw the second child despite its C-section delivery, that it was taken from them and subsequently raised by the husband-wife doctor team that delivered it. The doctors call it a case of abandonment in which they had to intervene, raising twin two as their own. Faced with such tasty drama, the scribes at BBC couldn’t help but stereotype:

It sounds like a plot from a Latin American soap opera.
But for the two girls involved, it is all too real. Marielisa and Andrea are identical twins, but have only recently met for the first time.

How insulting! Telenovela writers would never run with such a mundane concept. When it comes to plotlines, those guys like to keep ‘em convoluted and classy.

Ecuadorian doctors ’stole twin’ [BBC]
Image [Max Boost UK]
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