First off, my mother, the woman who gave birth to me, is a FRATERNAL twin. Looks and acts nothing like her fraternal twin.
Ok. So, I got a DNA test. Turns out I am genetically my aunt's daughter. My mother's fraternal twin. My aunt didn't give birth to me. Not only do I have my birth certificate, but she was also a thousand miles away when I was born. Not only are there were pictures, but my mom also almost died giving birth. There's no family secret. They are not identical.
So, what happened? I am the biological child of not my aunt, but her identical twin that only could have existed between days 1 and 12 of fertilization as a few cells and was absorbed by my actual mother. That's the stem cell stage of development before differentiation, before fraternal twins have amniotic sacs at all, let alone separate. My mother is a chimera of her fraternal twins, identical twin. My biological mother isn't my aunt. She's her living twin. My mom is a phantom. A ghost that was never born.
Similar has been found in women going to get paternity, an organ or bone marrow transplant and the results say none of their kids are theirs. They are, they just absorbed a twin early on before stem cells differentiate. But none of those cases are from a mother that's a twin.
I cannot find any other instance of someone having their fraternal twins, identical twins' child as a chimera surrogate, but that's it in a nutshell. We are a mismatch freak accident of nature.
So now genetically my mom has no children. My aunt is genetically a gramma to my child. I have a genetic half sibling cousin. My biological mother only existed for days, as a zygote, was never born and lives on in my mother's ovaries.
Thats how my biological mother is a Phantom. I named her Sophia Lesly Boyd. Meaning "the secret wisdom" and an ancestral family name that also an island. Because she never left and still is with the ancestors yet lived on in secret alone. I love you mom. My real mom is mean. I wish I had you. Maybe you would've loved me more.
