Showing posts with label reunited siblings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reunited siblings. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

Long Lost Brothers Find They Are Neighbors

Newfoundland brothers Stephen Goosney (left) and Tommy Larkin (right) were separated as children decades ago but found each other in March.  (CBC)These stories never cease to amaze me. Hearing about siblings that have reunited is always fantastic...but when they turn out to be neighbors or coworkers, it's reminiscent of Hollywood. Here is the recent story of a pair of brothers in Canada:

After years of trying to find each other, two long-lost Newfoundland brothers have discovered they live just metres apart in Corner Brook.

"He was across the road. I could not believe it. That was crazy. It took me about three hours to get up the nerve to call," said Tommy Larkin, 30.

Larkin and his brother, Stephen Goosney, 29, were adopted as children by separate families. Larkin grew up in a happy family in Cook's Harbour, on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula.

Goosney grew up a few hundred kilometres south, in Woody Point.

Both Larkin and Goosney spent years searching for their biological family but had no luck, until they received help from Newfoundland and Labrador's Post Adoption Services agency.

On March 25, the brothers found out they have been living on the same street in Corner Brook, western Newfoundland, for the past two years.

"[Finding him in] Newfoundland would have been really exceptional … but across the road is something amazing," said Goosney.

> Read the full story here at CBC News

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Separated Twins Reunite Decades Later

I love stories like this (and in my own backyard too!):
A local woman has been reunited with her twin after 52 years.The family's story starts in Japan, continues with family scattered from Madison to San Diego, Calif., and ends with twins finding each other on the Internet.
Watch the video recap:




> Read the full story here (Channel3000.com)

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Co-workers Discover They Are Brothers

Gary Nisbet, left, and Randy Joubert, 36, found out they were brothers. Photo: AP/The Bangor Daily News, Gabor DegreWhat a great story this is:
Two employees of the same company in Waldoboro, Maine, have turned out to be brothers separated 35 years ago. In July, when Randy Joubert of Dow Furniture was assigned a new delivery partner, Gary Nisbet, customers began remarking on their uncanny resemblance. That spurred Joubert, who had been put up for adoption as a baby, to dig up his birth records. He shared the information with Nisbet, who confirmed they had the same parents. “This only happens once in a lifetime. And it happens in Waldoboro,” said Nisbet. “Nothing good ever happens in Waldoboro.” (from the Week)
I've posted many stories of reunited family members before, but what I love about this one in particular is that they working together. How funny is that? Customers kept saying, "Wow, you guys look like brothers..." and they actually turn out to be.

Also, read the surprising coda here - they recently reunited with a half-sister too.

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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Reunited Siblings Were Living Only 300 Yards Apart

Amazing!

A brother and sister who have been reunited after nearly 40 years discovered they had been living only 300 yards from each other.

> Read the full story here @ Telegraph.co.uk