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 The Australian women's weekly January 2020 issue

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Over 15 years ago, Melissa Doyle experienced two events which would change the course of her life – one gloriously happy, the other heartbreaking. The former, needless to say, was the birth of her daughter, Talia, on December 18, 2003. With her today as she chats to The Weekly and clearly the apple of her mother’s eye, Talia is Melissa’s second child – son Nick is two years older – and completed the family she had built with her husband, sports marketing executive John Dunlop. The pair met when Melissa was just 23 and starting out in journalism, and from the outset they knew they had found a love that would last the distance. The latter was an event which would rock people the world over. On Boxing Day 2004, a tsunami caused by an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean near Indonesia devastated the region, claiming over 230,000 lives in 14 different countries. At the time, Melissa was co-hosting Sunrise and she – along with her colleagues and peers at the Seven Network – knew she had to do something, anything, to help.The major networks joined forces to put on a fundraiser, all TV rivals putting aside any professional or personal differences for a greater cause. And her work on that day led to a fateful phone call from World Vision Australia Chief Advocat Tim Costello. Would she, he asked, consider joining World Vision as a Goodwill Ambassador? “My involvement with them was prior to that,” recalls Melissa who, like many Australians, has sponsored several children over the years. “But to be able to actually do it in an official capacity was pretty special. It’s an honour.

The Mother of  all MIX-UPS
On a cold New York day after the usual nine months of nesting and anticipation, Donna Fasano gave birth to two darling boys. She and her husband, Richard, were both in their late 30s and had enlisted an IVF clinic to help them conceive, so when the twin cries filled that hospital room in December 1998, there was not only joy, but relief. They named the babies Vincent and Joseph and took them home to Staten Island where the little ones shared bath time and a baby gym, in the way brothers do. “Both these boys are beautiful – two precious, normal little boys,” the couple’s lawyer, Ivan Tantleff, said in the wake of the catastrophe that unfolded, though it would have been hard for the parents to deny knowing something was amiss. On May 10, 1999, when the babies were five months old, Donna and Richard separated their twins, said a tearful goodbye to Joseph, and handed him over to two strangers. “We’re giving him up because we love him,” Donna explained at the time. It was heartbreaking but they didn’t have a choice because, despite the fact that Donna had given birth to him, Joseph had no biological relationship to Donna, Richard or his‘twin brother’, Vincent. In fact, the Fasanos were white and Joseph, or Akeil as he was renamed, was African American. The error that led to this nightmare situation was revealed in an ugly court battle. Akeil’s biological parents, Deborah and Robert Rogers, had attended a Manhattan IVF clinic on the same day as the Fasanos, but unlike the Fasanos, their procedure had not resulted in a pregnancy. What Deborah and Robert didn’t then know was that their embryo had been inadvertently implanted in Donna’s womb. In May 1998, eight months before the babies were born, the clinic contacted both couples and warned them of the suspected error