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Brentwood
09-21-2009, 08:58 PM
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/NATLCoworkers-Find-Theyre-Long-Lost-Brothers-59989747.html?yhp=1

This is a heart warming story. These 2 guys (both adopted) were working with each other for some weeks and received many comments from people that they looked like brothers.

One of them didn’t know he had a bother. The other brother found out he had a brother somewhere who was born on June 10, 1974.

Something clicked w/the brother who knew he had a brother somewhere unknown, and he asked the guy when was his b-day, etc. and it was June 10, 1974.

They are not half brothers, they are full brothers.

I think I would be shocked if I was the brother who never knew he had a brother.

Watch video at link. I think they almost look like twins. They even have the same glasses.
debbadoo
09-22-2009, 02:00 AM
WOW....I LOVE stories like this...they make my day! :biggrin:
JD1974
09-22-2009, 09:22 AM
Their sister has also found them because of the news story.
debbadoo
09-22-2009, 12:32 PM
JD, saw the updated version of the story and saw that their half sister found them through this story! It just gets better and better! :biggrin:
Brentwood
09-22-2009, 09:39 PM
JD, saw the updated version of the story and saw that their half sister found them through this story! It just gets better and better! :biggrin:

I would love to see the updated story where the sister finds them. Do you have a link or point me to where I can find it :)
birdwatch
09-22-2009, 11:07 PM
I would love to see the updated story where the sister finds them. Do you have a link or point me to where I can find it :) I would love to see that also. I think that it is so sad that the government not only separates siblings but also makes it difficult for them to find each other later in life. It should be part of the adoption process that when kids are adopted that they must be informed they are adopted and that they have siblings they can contact at some point after they are 18 or something. Secrets are sickening. I always hate to hear when people find out after their parents die that they are adopted.... and its often to late to find their siblings. I'm so very happy for these men and their sister.:thumbsup:
camracrazy
09-24-2009, 04:00 PM
It looks like there are two sisters also:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32964825/
Brentwood
09-24-2009, 11:12 PM
I would love to see that also. I think that it is so sad that the government not only separates siblings but also makes it difficult for them to find each other later in life. It should be part of the adoption process that when kids are adopted that they must be informed they are adopted and that they have siblings they can contact at some point after they are 18 or something. Secrets are sickening. I always hate to hear when people find out after their parents die that they are adopted.... and its often to late to find their siblings. I'm so very happy for these men and their sister.:thumbsup:

I couldn't agree with you more. My mother found out that she had 2 brothers she never knew about, after she was an adult. Some distant relatives told her. She is in her 70's now and to this day she cannot find them.
Brentwood
09-24-2009, 11:15 PM
It looks like there are two sisters also:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32964825/

WOW!!! How Wonderful. I am so happy for them. The family they didn't know they had is growing.....how heart warming!
Adalena935
09-24-2009, 11:25 PM
It looks like there are two sisters also:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32964825/

Thanks for posting. It's a great story. But what gets me is otherwise-well-meaning adults who tell children not to tell. The one sister who was asked by the other sis if they were sisters and she replied no because she was told not to tell. I think adults do this to somehow placate themselves unawares the damage done to the children. No one has the right. This is my opinion.
justaguy
09-30-2009, 04:54 AM
what really makes me angry is that these two were adopted out separately. i am adopted..and together with MY twin brother, were the first twins adopted together in nebraska. but that was in the early 60s when the attitude was more of..adoption is a burden..and it was thought that placing separately would make it more likely that they would be adopted.

this was 1974.. i think its atroceous.
Brentwood
10-06-2009, 12:29 AM
what really makes me angry is that these two were adopted out separately. i am adopted..and together with MY twin brother, were the first twins adopted together in nebraska. but that was in the early 60s when the attitude was more of..adoption is a burden..and it was thought that placing separately would make it more likely that they would be adopted.

this was 1974.. i think its atroceous.

I couldn't agree with you more. It may be easier for authorities to find adoption separately, but they should make the effort to make sure that siblings are adopted together. When I was child, my family fostered a boy whose mother had died. His brothers were separated into other different foster families. It seems unfair that they were separated during their childhood. Now they are all adults and have found each other but they have lost years where they were separated. Very sad, unfair and wrong!