‘Decades of heartbreak’: Chinese women switched at birth 37 years ago live 4km apart

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Two women who were switched at birth 37 years ago grew up just 4km apart in southern China, discovering that a hospital error had set their lives on divergent paths.Huang Xiaolin and Li Hui were born 55 minutes apart at Qingyuan People’s Hospital in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, in October 1989, according to China Newsweek.Nurses briefly presented the newborns to their mothers before taking them to a nursery, where both wore identical hospital attire. The maternity ward did not use...