In an extraordinary event, a woman, Miche Zephany Sheldon, who was taken at birth and raised by a kidnapper, walked down the aisle with both of her ‘dads.’ At only three days old, Miche Zephany Sheldon was abducted by Lavona Solomon from Groote Schur Hospital in Cape Town on 30th April 1997.
Raised by Lavona and her husband Michael, Miche did not know that she was the biological daughter of another family.
However, everything took a turn in 2015 when Cassidy, a new girl, enrolled in Miche’s school, and striking resemblances between them became apparent. Due to the striking resemblances between Miche and Cassidy, social workers at the school she requested Miche to take a DNA test.
The test revealed that Cassidy was, in fact, Miche’s biological sister.
Furthermore, the DNA test confirmed that Lavona and Michael were not Miche’s biological parents, resulting in Lavona’s arrest and a ten-year sentence for kidnapping Miche.
On 25th February 2015, at 17, Miche was introduced to her birth parents; however, she did not immediately feel connected.
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“It was extremely difficult because you’ve grown up thinking this is your family,” she said.
“Meeting my biological parents… there wasn’t that connection.”
She added, “I was looking for it, but it wasn’t there initially. I’d been raised by Lavona and Michael my whole life. Both families were just so harsh with each other, as well. I really had to adjust to having two different dads in my life. But I knew I’d want them both walking me down the aisle whenever I got married.”
When Miche tied the knot with Justin Sheldon in March of this year, she made a special request.
She asked Michael, who raised her, and her biological dad, Morne Nurse, to walk her down the aisle.
“Michael had been my dad my whole life – he fathered me. I’m so glad Morne opened his heart to walk alongside him down the aisle,” she said.
“It was such a beautiful day. We saw the union ship of my two families.”
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Source: vtt.edu.vn