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The saddest, most bizarre story you’ll read all day.

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a peer told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the British couple’s union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.

The peer - who was told of the case by a High Court judge involved - said the twins felt an “inevitable attraction”.

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The former Liberal Democrat MP raised the couple’s case during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in December.

“They were never told that they were twins,” he told the Lords.

“They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation.”

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Pam Hodgkins, chief executive officer of the charity Adults Affected by Adoption (NORCAP) said there had been previous cases of separated siblings being attracted to each other.

“We have a resistance, a very strong incest taboo where we are aware that someone is a biological relative,” she said.

“But when we are unaware of that relationship, we are naturally drawn to people who are quite similar to ourselves.

They talk about this sort of situation happening before, but that’s gotta be pretty long odds.  Two kids, separated at birth, meeting each other later in life and falling in love?

That’s got to be pretty rare.  Regardless, what a sad story.  For them to not only learn that their marriage was wrong but to also have to deal with the awkward feelings that come after this revelation?  I don’t envy them a bit.