Woman stumbles across doppelganger on TikTok - then discovers dark family secret
A woman's TikTok lookalike turned out to be her biological long-lost twin after the sisters were separated on the black market adoption business.
Ano Sartania, 21, told how her life changed forever when friends told her they'd stumbled upon her doppelganger while scrolling through TikTok. In fact, Ano's friends initially thought it was her after just dying her hair blue as the likeness was so incredible. After friends forwarded the TikTok to Ano, she began searching for her doppelganger after being shocked at the likeness.
Eventually coming upon the Georgian Facebook group 'Vedzeb' (which roughly translates to 'I'm looking for'), Ano began scrolling through the stories people had told the 230,000 group members. Through the tales of adoption and separated, Ano managed to track down her fellow Georgian lookalike, Tako Khvitia, before striking up conversation and realising they were twins separated at birth and adopted.
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The twins had fallen victim to the murky underworld of illegal adoptions, where newborns were taken from their Georgian mothers and sold to wealthy families - some even told tales of being taken from their mother's right after childbirth only for nurses to return to tell new mothers their baby had died.
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The pair also eventually learned about a brother and sister - as well as the whereabouts of their mother (Sartaniaanoo/TikTok)Ano Sartania and Tako Khvitia, now 21, tragically found out their own mother had been told this cruel lie shortly after she had given birth to the girls on June 20, 2002, Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported. However, the cruelty did not end there as their own father, Gocha Gakharia, had conspired to secretly sell the twins tot he black market after incorrectly believing the girls weren't his.
The black market operation saw the girls separated and re-homed them different families. Ano was sent to live in the capital of Tbilisi, and Tako in the small town of Zugdidi, near the Black Sea coastline. However despite living separate lives unaware of one another's existence, they shared similar interests, Both Ano and Tako gravitated toward dancing.
After reconnecting online, the twins met in person at the age of 19 in a metro station in Tbilisi. Ano went on to describe their spiritual connection, even without knowing her sister existed. She said: "I always had this feeling that someone was following me everywhere I went, every day I had the same dream of a little girl, dressed in black, asking me questions about my daily routine."
The pair also eventually learned about a brother and sister - as well as the whereabouts of their mother, who'd since moved to Germany. They also sought to track down their surviving family members on their father's side, before DNA results proved they were actually his biological daughters.
Ano says their father has since asked to strike up a relationship with the twins, but she was firm in saying it would "never happen".
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