After my twin boys, Jack and Will, suddenly stopped speaking following a visit from their grandmother, Patricia, I thought it was a phase. Doctors couldn’t explain their silence, which lasted for months, until one night I overheard a conversation that shattered my world.
The boys whispered about a woman named Vivian and something their grandmother had said. I learned that Patricia had convinced them they weren’t really my children, and after a DNA test confirmed they weren’t biologically mine, my world fell apart.
Confronting Patricia, I learned that she had swapped my babies at birth after complications, giving me twins that weren’t mine. She justified her actions, claiming they had saved me from grief, but her lies had deeply hurt our family. Furious, I told her never to come near us again.
In the doorway, Jack tearfully said, “You’re our mom. That’s all that matters.” Holding him close, I knew no one could take that truth away from me.
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