Our Daughter Had a Twin Sister We Never Told Her About—On Her 18th Birthday, My Husband Brought Out a Chest He’d Been Building for 18 Years

“But that’s what we told ourselves.”

PART 15 — THE PEDIATRICIAN

One of Chloe’s earliest questions frightened me.

“Did my doctors know?”

Her pediatrician had known she was a surviving twin because the birth history was medically relevant.

Later doctors saw it in records too.

But no one had discussed it directly with Chloe when she was small.

At older appointments, I often handled history forms myself.

Chloe looked stunned.

“So doctors knew too.”