Revealing the Truth
A week later, a geneticist showed up at Tindell’s office and unfolded the paperwork for the test results. It takes Ellen a moment to make sense of it when she hears that the DNA taken from the cervical tissue was an exact match to the DNA of her children. The geneticist said she had only seen this in textbooks and heard her explain that she was a tetragametic chimera, a twin at the beginning of her pregnancy, but one absorbed the other, resulting in different DNA in her blood and ovaries. Ellen’s ovaries carried the DNA of the twin sisters who were never born. And this truth will be revealed in court.
