No Navel Piercing

Laura’s parents did not pay attention to such weird happenings and realizations until the day they themselves discovered another fact. One day in the absence of the nurse, Susie was dressing up Laura when she noticed that Laura’s navel piercing was missing. She clearly remembered how excited Laura was on getting her navel pierced and today there wasn’t any signs piercing. What was going on?

Breaking Illusions

Though the family did not want to think on the lines like the ones which were somehow forming when they could see that Laura was whole a lot different from what she used to be before the accident, a therapist at the rehab center helped them. She asked Laura to pen down her name on the piece of paper. The piece of paper shattered and broke the illusion.

Not Laura

What Laura wrote was something her parents feared. She wrote her name as “Whitney” and her parents’ name as “Newell and Colleen”. This was what she meant when she said “false parents”. The Ryns broke into tears. The girl they had been taking care since so many days was not their daughter.

Whitney Cerak

To confirm their nightmares, Don and Susie even performed a dental exam on their “assumed-to-be-daughter”. And when the results declared that it wasn’t Laura, but Whitney Cerak, their world came shattering to them. Whitney was another person who was assumed to have lost her life in this tragic car accident. And there had been a terrible identity confusion.

ID Cards Changed

This identity crisis was all due to the mix-up of the girls ID-Cards. The accident was so enormous, it was believed that Laura’s ID was unknowingly clipped or found near Whitney which made for this major mistake. And call it fate or what, but both the girls shared very similar facial characteristics.

Similar Looking

Both the girls shared extremely similar looking facial features. Anyone could have easily mistaken their identities. They had a fair complexion, similar built-structure, blonde hair, and grey eyes. While the Ryns began mourning over her lost daughter, Whitney was crying in wait of her real parents.