— My name is Ana, she replied, with big, bright eyes.
I felt my knees tremble. My wife sat down on a chair, pale-faced. My daughter’s name? Also Ana.
— And… how old are you, sweetheart?
— I turn five in March! she said, jumping with joy.
My daughter… was also born in March. The same name. The same face. The same birthmark under her collarbone.
My wife and I exchanged silent glances. This girl couldn’t just be a coincidence. It was impossible. I immediately requested her file.
The director seemed hesitant.
— It’s a sad story… The little girl was found almost a year ago, abandoned in a park, without any documents, without a trace. She only had a plastic bracelet with the letters “ANA”.
I felt my stomach tighten. My daughter — the one at home — had been with me since birth. She had been declared the only child. Her mother, my ex-wife, had died in an accident three years ago. Or…
I requested a DNA test.
The result came a week later.
The little girl… was my daughter’s twin sister.
My wife burst into tears, and I felt the world spinning around me.
How? Why did no one tell us there were two?
The answer came painfully from the nurse who had attended the birth. The girls’ mother had had a twin pregnancy, but in the chaos of the accident, one of the girls had mistakenly been sent into the social protection system, without anyone realizing.
Until today.
When I got home with Ana — the other Ana — my daughter stood wide-eyed at the door.
— Daddy… why are there two of me?
I knelt down and took them both in my arms.
— Because, my dear, God made sure we found each other. Even if it took a little while.
Since then, our home has been fuller. With laughter. With toys. With whispered stories under the blanket.
And every night, when the girls give each other their goodnight kiss, I look at them and understand: some souls are bound together forever.
No matter how many mistakes the world makes, true love always finds a way.
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