But by the time the babies went home, one boy from each pair was in the wrong family.
The sick baby from the countryside stayed in Bogotá and grew up as Carlos. One of the seamstress's sons went to the farm and grew up as William. Jorge believes the babies were kept in the same room, and that an identification bracelet may have slipped off.
The city mother had been told to expect identical twins. When her two boys looked different, she simply accepted it. Each family believed its twins were fraternal.