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Two Cape Town women. One, aged 25, made headlines some years ago when it was discovered that she had been abducted from hospital as a new-born and brought up under, of course, different names. Her biological parents had another daughter and the two attended the same school: they resembled each other so much that enquiries began, DNA tests were performed, and Zephany's true identity was established, ending many years of heartache for her birth parents and resulting in her assumed mother being sentenced to time in prison.
The other, who retired some years ago as a professor of medicine at the University of Cape Town medical school, is named Zephne. There doesn't seem to be any link or relationship between the two: I haven't been in contact with either and do not intend to try. But I have never encountered Zephne or Zephany before, and I'd be interested to know if there are any other sightings. Zephany seems like an elaboration of Stephanie, but maybe not. Zephne has two syllables, like Daphne, but the first vowel is different.

This message was edited 3/21/2023, 12:40 PM