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Separated @ Birth by Anais Bordier & Samantha Futerman
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Separated @ Birth

A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited

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Narrator Emily Woo Zeller

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Length 8 hours 40 minutes
Language English
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It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19, 1987—the exact same location and day that Anaïs was born. This propelled her to make contact—via Facebook. One message later, both girls wondered: Could they be twins?



Thus begins their remarkable journey to build a relationship as sisters, continents apart. Over Facebook, Twitter, and Skype, they learned that they shared much more than a strikingly similar appearance. Eventually, they traveled to Korea together to discover more about the land of their separation. Separated @ Birth is a story that spans the world and peels back some of the complex and emotional layers of foreign adoption.

Anais Bordier was adopted as an infant and grew up in the suburbs of Paris. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London with a degree in fashion design. She lives in Paris, where she works as a leather-goods designer for Gerard Darel.

Samantha Futerman was adopted as an infant and raised in New Jersey. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing a career as an actress. Her credits include roles in the films Memoirs of a Geisha and 21 & Over, and the television series Suburgatory, The Big C, and Up All Night.

Emily Woo Zeller began her voice-over career by voicing animation in Asia. She returned to the United States in 2009 and found a natural fit as an audiobook narrator. Described by AudioFile magazine as doing "an extraordinary job of varying the voices in the dialogue without losing the intimacy of the story," Emily's multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective into Asian American narratives. While she specializes in Asian American narratives, Emily's work spans a broad spectrum, including young adult fiction and such titles as The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore and The Sex Diaries Project by Arianne Cohen. She also narrated Gulp by Mary Roach, for which she won an AudioFile Earphones Award.

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