Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Could my kids have been swapped at birth?

- ELEANOR GOGGIN

I’VE been an avid follower of Coronation Street for more years than I care to remember. Right back to the days when I lived in flatland in Dublin. Two TV rental companies merged and we assumed, because we hadn’t received a bill for ages, that we were lost somewhere in the merger. Not so. Two guys arrived one evening to remove our device. Coronation Street was on. We begged them to wait until the end and made comfortabl­e space for them to sit down. They did. And then took the set.

The point I’m making is that I have been watching Corrie for that length of time. Now I have to admit it has become fairly farcical in recent years. Trains falling off bridges and wiping people out. Every second person ending up in jail. Murders galore. But what took the biscuit the other night, when I was catching up, was Liz and Jim’s daughter turning up. She was supposed to have died shortly after birth, but it turns out the hospital got it wrong and, in fact, she’s alive. And bear in mind that Michelle has two sons wandering the cobbles at the moment — one biological and one who was the wrong baby given to her in the hospital. It’s beyond credible. All in the one small street. Now it’s turned out that the Liz and Jim situation was a scam, but it got me thinking that, maybe, I got the wrong children in the hospital and, in fact, my real children are millionair­es somewhere in the world. And that the mistake will be discovered and they will seek me out and come back and provide me with incredible wealth in my twilight years. I suppose to expect all three to have been a hospital error would be a step too far? Don’t get me wrong and, just in case they read this, I adore the three I have but I’m just saying...

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