This tale of two infants whose identities were switched at birth due to a medical mistake comes straight from the archives of “the reality is stranger than fiction.”

When the girls were three years old, the mix-up was found, and their biological parents were forced to confront the heartbreaking thought of taking their daughters away from the only families they had ever known.

The situation may appear to be heartbreaking, but there’s a twist in the story that makes it anything from a drama that will make you cry.

Instead of tearing their families apart, the parents of the group decided to find a way to raise their girls together so that they could all live in the same house.

Caterina Alagna and Melissa Fodera, both from the seaside village of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, were both 23 years old when they gave birth to baby daughters 15 minutes apart on the evening of December 31, 1998. The births occurred as the clock ticked closer and closer to midnight.

During the festivities that took place on New Year’s Eve, the nurses who were on duty were somehow able to switch their two very young patients.

When it was time for the mothers and newborns to go home, Alagna and Fodera both questioned why the infants weren’t wearing the clothing that they’d brought, but the hospital staff assured them that it was simply a wardrobe snafu. Alagna and Fodera both questioned why the infants weren’t wearing the clothing that they’d brought.

After another three years had passed, Alagna was picking up her daughter Melissa from nursery school when she witnessed something that rocked her to her very core. Another kid, who would later be known by the name Caterina, had a striking similarity to Alagna’s other two biological daughters.

The episode with the clothing came to her as soon as she realized that the mother of the little girl, Fodera, was the same woman who had been in the maternity unit with her. At that moment, she had an aha! moment.