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Date Posted: 11:53:43 09/22/04 Wed
Author: Abundance Guy
Subject: Re: Oops-- I should've also mentioned...
In reply to: Lapinette 's message, "Oops-- I should've also mentioned..." on 11:37:30 09/22/04 Wed

>Regarding the "fraternal twin" thing in the info about
>chimerism... it's possible that Tyler had a twin in
>utero. It's called "vanishing twin syndrome" and it's
>where one of the embryos gets reabsorbed during the
>gestation process. Sounds spooky but it happened to a
>friend of mine just a couple years ago. Her lovely
>daughter started her cellular development as one of
>twins but ended up being solo!

So it's not merely that the twin doesn't survive, but they are literally genetically absorbed into the remaining fetus? Wow!

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