Dubai – Masaader News
It was the first day of term at Zwaanswyk High School in Cape Town and the beginning of Miché Solomon’s final year, according to BBC.
And that January day in 2015, 17-year-old Miché was mobbed by other students excitedly telling her about the new girl, Cassidy Nurse, who was three years younger but looked almost identical to her.
when the two girls later met in the corridor, Miché says she felt an instant connection she couldn’t explain.
Despite the age difference, Miché and Cassidy began spending a lot of time together.
When anyone asked Miché and Cassidy if they were sisters they would joke, “We don’t know – maybe in another life!”
Then one day the two girls took a selfie together and showed it to their friends. Some asked Miché if she was sure she hadn’t been adopted. “No! Don’t be crazy!” she insisted.
Then Miché and Cassidy went home and showed their families the picture, too. Lavona, Miché’s mother, who called her daughter “Princess” and would take her to the mall and to the movies, commented on how similar the two girls looked.
But Cassidy’s parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, gazed intensely at the photograph. They told Cassidy they had a question for Miché, and when the two girls next met Cassidy came out with it: “Were you born on 30 April 1997?”
“I said, ‘Why? Are you stalking me on Facebook?'” Miché says.
Cassidy assured Miché that she wasn’t stalking her, she just wanted to know when Miché had been born. So Miché replied that yes, she had been born on 30 April 1997.
Weeks later, Miché was unexpectedly summoned from her maths lesson to the headmaster’s office, where two social workers were waiting. They told Miché a story about a three-day-old baby girl called Zephany Nurse, who had been abducted from Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town 17 years previously and had never been found.
Miché listened to the story unfold, feeling unsure why they were telling her this. Then the social workers explained that there was evidence to suggest that Miché could be the child who had been taken, all those years ago.
The DNA test results came back the following day and proved indisputably that Miché Solomon and Zephany Nurse, the baby snatched from the Groote Schuur Hospital in 1997, were the same. person.