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There was a story in the news in Poland, few months ago, about a peculiar baby-swap and reunion. Identical twins were born and soon one of them was incidentally swapped with other baby girl during the bathing at the hospital. Two mothers returned home (one no longer considering her twins identical, the other not even suspecting that anything wrong had happened to her child) and so the twins have been separated for seventeen years. The press accounts of their reunion suggested that their eventual meeting, the fact that the girls had some mutual friends or acquaintances who made the reunion possible, was to some extent accidental. However, the network structure and dynamics of social world, and the fact that twins are actually so similar, should make such reunions rule rather than exception. (more…)