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When Sasha Szafranski connected with a stranger on a genealogy website, she uncovered a mistake that had been hidden for 30 years.

It was a match Sasha Szafranski never saw coming.

In 2025, she sent a sample of her DNA to Ancestry.com — a website that helps people trace their genealogy.

The mother-of-two had been hoping to learn more about her father's Eastern European heritage.

But when her results came back, she found a connection much closer to home.

Sasha matched with Elizabeth*, a stranger from the same coastal city she grew up in.

Elizabeth: Hi Sasha, I see you're a close DNA match with me. Do you know how we are related?

Sasha: Hey I am trying to work that out myself, I can't place anyone

Elizabeth: I'm happy to help if you need. I'm coming up as your Aunt.

The pair started a conversation, sharing information about their families to try to solve the mystery.

i When Sasha revealed she was a twin, the conversation took a life-altering turn.

Elizabeth: This is a personal question, but you wouldn't happen to be IVF babies by any chance?

Sasha: Yes! My twin and I were IVF!

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Strangely, I think she hit the nail on the head.

Plus, total abandonment of any sense that we belong to something bigger. Loss of faith—not just in religion, but in all social bonds. No sense that there’s anything binding us, that we even share the same values. Forget loving our neighbour, we can’t even make eye contact with them. Nothing holds us together anymore. We are alone.

Everything she complains there about is again related to “Covid Moral Lesson II”: “What makes relationships possible is that we set the right expectations, and that we trust ourselves and others to honour them. These expectations set the parameters for acceptable behaviour, and keep us responsive and responsible to each other. It is precisely these expectations that the COVID narrative demanded we breach.”