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Photos: The Hicks babies gather
Thirty or so people showed up at small inn in Ducktown, Tennessee, on Saturday to have their cheeks swapped for DNA testing. Now in their 50s and 60s, they are so-called Hicks babies, having been given up by their birth mothers as infants and sold to new families by Dr. Thomas Hicks from his clinic in McCaysville in the ’50s and ’60s.
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Taylor Walker, nurse, collects DNA samples from Lesa Burgess, of Blue Ridge, who introduced herself as an intended Hicks Baby, at Ocoee River Inn in Ducktown, Tennessee on Saturday, June 21, 2014. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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