Mary Joy Olena & Mary Ann Lopez.

TWINS; SISTERS; OLENA, Amy; ADOPTION

Heyman, J.D.; Wright, Lynda; Slania, John; Isackson, Noah

As Amy Olena tells it, she was growing up in the Philippines when she was raped in 1976 at age 13 and became pregnant. She didn't know she was bearing twins, and shortly after their birth, she says, a relative sold one girl, Mary Ann, to an obstetrician for 200 dollars. When the doctor's wife died six years later, Mary Ann was passed on to another family, who treated her as a servant. Meanwhile the other girl, Mary Joy, was living happily with her mother. In 1984 Amy married a U.S. seaman, and in 1990 they moved to California. In 1993, Amy says, she was shocked to learn about Mary Ann from a relative. But after a blood test indicated she was the girl's mother, she brought her to America. Mary Ann has always doubted her mother's story--she had been told she was abandoned--and didn't get along with her twin. The years since their reunion have been difficult.