Switched at Birth is a 1991 Television film directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978.
When Arlena Twigg becomes ill, a blood test reveals that she is not the biological daughter of Regina and Ernest Twigg. When Arlena dies at the age of nine, her parents search for their biological daughter who is being raised as Kimberly Mays.
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Switched at Birth is a 1991 Television film directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978.
When Arlena Twigg becomes ill, a blood test reveals that she is not the biological daughter of Regina and Ernest Twigg. When Arlena dies at the age of nine, her parents search for their biological daughter who is being raised as Kimberly Mays.
Kimberly Mays (born November 1978) was born in a Wauchula, Florida, hospital and switched at birth with Arlena Twigg, a girl who died at age nine (Aug 1988) of complications following surgery for a heart defect. Mays was the subject of a bitter custody battle in the late 1980s and early 1990s between her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Florida, and Bob Mays, the man who raised her after she was switched at birth. Though Mays won the right to stay with Bob Mays in a 1993 Florida court proceeding, she later ran away from Bob...
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