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Birth control

A reader wonders what might have happened if two famous figures born on the same day had been brought up by each others’ families
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Sir, George W. Bush and Sylvester Stallone were born on the same day (Birthdays today, July 6). Would the world be different today if they had inadvertently been switched in hospital and raised by the “wrong” family?

Allan Richardson
Halver, Germany