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Barbora Skrlova, aka 'Adam', is a 33-year-old woman who fooled Czech authorities by posing as a 13-year-old boy and enrolled in the Marienlyst school.

In mid-December, however, Adam disappeared from the Oslo children's home, prompting police to launch a nationwide search and publish photographs on Jan. 4 of the missing 'child.' Tips led them to find Skrlova in the Arctic city on Tromsoe.

'It turned out that the so-called missing teenager was a 33-year-old woman,' Norwegian police said in a statement.

It was apparently not the first time Skrlova had fooled authorities by posing as a child, which at least in Norway offered her food, shelter and an identity that disguised both her age and gender.

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