when i tell people my story, they don't believe it. i guess i wouldn't believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i'm telling it. and it's true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. ♪ it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo.

had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn't some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn't know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was never really like popular. so i'm walking around trying to find where my dorm is. meanwhile all these people are coming up to me saying, hi, how are you? how was your summer?

mine was great, how was yours? super. why are they asking me how my summer was? i don't know. everybody's being extremely friendly me to me and they're going out of their way to do it. i don't mean just a hi. i mean claps on the back and high fives. and i was a little bit bewildered by this because no one gets this kind of a welcome their first day of school. and girls were kissing me, like fully kissing me, saying i'm so glad you came back. i was saying thank you, hello back, but i'd never been there before and i didn't know them. it was bizarre. and the next thing i heard right behind me, welcome back, eddy. eddy, how are you? eddy, hi. i'm like, hey, i don't know what you're talking about, i just got up here. sure, eddy, you're really funny, really funny, real funny. i'm like, i'm not eddy, i don't know who eddy is. welcome back, eddy, they're all

saying. i finally made it to this dump of a dorm room. and before a minute had gone by, who now? who now is going to come to find eddy? >> i had been at college the previous year with eddy and i knew that he wasn't coming back to school. as soon as this guy turned around, i was actually shaking. i was -- i -- i know -- the color from my face dropped. because i knew it was his double. he had the same grin, the same hair, the same expressions, it was his double. >> and i see this guy's face. and he's like -- just standing there. the first thing out of my mouth was, were you adopted? >> and i was like, yes. >> i said, is your birthday july 12th?

he said yes. >> july 12, 1961. >> oh my gosh, i said, you're not going to believe this. i said, you have a twin brother. you have a twin. >> oh, my god. >> i said, come with me. the two of us were crammed into this phone booth, shoulder to shoulder. and, you know, we have to like close the door of the phone booth. >> and i'm trying to put the coins in and they keep falling on the floor. bobby's picking up the coins. >> and he calls this guy and he's like, hey, eddy, you're not going to believe this, you're not going to believe this, eddy, eddy, you're not going to believe this. this guy is more hysterical than i am like weirded out. eddy, you're not going to believe this. so i was like, give me the phone. hi, eddy. >> yes? >> but it was my voice that said yes. and i said, hi, eddy, my name is robert shafran, and i'm meeting all these people who say i'm

you. and he said, uh-huh, yeah, i've been getting some calls. i said, were you adopted? he said, yes. and i said, when was your birthday? >> july 12th. >> and i said, do you know what the name of the agency was? and he said -- >> no, hold on. >> and i heard him go -- >> mom? >> and he came back and said -- >> louise wise services. >> sometimes when you're just having a dream and know this can't be real this can't be real. but you know there's nothing you can do to stop it, start it, change it. you just go with and it that's what i was doing. i just wanted to see what was going to happen next. and i'm like, let's go. let's go meet eddy. so we got into the old bitch. and on to long island we went.

so we got there. but it's like the middle of the nate. there is this really quiet neighborhood. so we get out of the car. and i walked up to this little path to the house. the lights were on in the house. and i reach out to knock on the door. and as i reach out to knock on the door, it opens. and here i am. his eyes are my eyes, my eyes are his eyes. and it's true. >> they looked exactly alike. they are duplicates of each other. there was no doubt in my mind that they were twins. >> he's going, oh, my god. i'm going, oh, my god.

he's going, holy crap. i'm going, holy crap. >> they just looked at each other and every time bobby moved his head, eddy moved. then eddy would move, and then bobby would move. like -- like they were looking at a mirror. it was the weirdest thing. >> it was like the world faded away and it was just me and eddy. >> so i'm in the newsroom. it's the middle of a busy day. we got a call from somebody who says they have an amazing story to tell us. we're not going to believe this story. and my first reaction, it's a hoax. so i told our reporter, i want to rent a plane. in those days we had enough money to do this. i want to rent a plane. i want to see these two kids face to face or i don't believe this.

we flew the journalists up to sullivan community college, and he called me and he said, howie, it's true, it's true. and i remember saying, oh, my god. this is a great story. this is a memorable, heartwarming story. and then the story went from being amazing to incredible. okay? from amazing to incredible. ive e run. kelsey. kelsey. marriage? oh. okay. look maybe you should just show her this beautiful helzberg diamond ring? that's a better idea. yeah, maybe not in the bathroom. oooh! oh my word! geico. it's easy to switch and save. ♪ even though ♪ i find you so captivating ♪ and i'm done with hesitating

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county community college. there was no picture, but the story was fascinating. i came home and went to sleep. my mother came into the room and said, wake up, wake up, i have to show you something. and she shows me a newspaper with a picture of two boys. and i had to focus. and i looked at the photograph and i said, is that david? and she's like, no, but look at the hands. and i was like, holy mackerel, this is beyond amazing. >> this was a picture in the newspaper of two guys in the "post." and i picked up the picture and i looked at it. and i was like in shock. because the two guys in the "post" look exactly, exactly like my -- like my friend david. i stared at it.

and it wasn't even just the look on their face. it was the way they were holding their hands. they had these big, meaty hands. david always had these hands that looked like baseball mitts. and when i saw their hands, i just knew that this is david. >> it was just a normal day. i got to school. ran into my buddy allen. he said, david, take a look at this. and he's got a copy of the "new york post." and he opens it up. he says, look at this. look familiar? something to that effect. i said, yeah, right, sure. but then we looked at it a little more closely. it was an article that said twins reunited after more than 19 years. and it had the picture of two of what looked like me.

it all started to sink in. holy -- oh my god, do you -- this is -- this is not believable. this is unbelievable. wow. this is -- this is big. this is serious. this is just not some kind of crazy coincidence. this is not a minor resemblance. this is real. this is happening. this is really, really serious. and i ditched classes and got home. my mother was waiting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee. and i said, mom, do you see this? she said, you see this? we kind of exchanged newspapers. it had born long irish jewish hospital, july 12th, 1961, and it was louise wise adoption agency. i mean, i always knew growing up that i was adopted. my parents were always open about it. but it said eddy galland of new hyde park, long island. robert shafran of scarsdale, new york. son of prominent scarsdale physician, mort shafran.

and my first thought i said he's got the wealthy family. this s.o.b. is probably driving a benz, he got a doctor. >> and i remember being with david in the kitchen. we were like really nervous. i mean, we were jumping around. we were 19 years old. this was surreal. david picked up the phone and he called information. and he reached eddy's mom. >> and i said, hi, is eddy home? she says, no, who's calling, please. and i thought, okay, now i got to go into this whole thing on the phone. and i said, well, my name is david kellman and i was born july 12th, 1961, and i'm looking at a newspaper, and basically, i think i'm looking at two of me. i think i might be the third. and i think she dropped the phone, actually. >> and i remember hearing her voice over the phone.

oh, my god, they are coming out of the woodwork. >> it was a miracle. the first time that the boys met together, the three together, was at my house. and the three of them ended up like puppies wrestling on the floor. it was the most incredible -- it was the most incredible thing. they belonged to each other. they knew each other. there was no formal introduction. i mean, when you meet somebody for the first time, you don't end up rolling around on the floor with them. >> it was truly not fully believable. even though it was happening. it was still surreal. you think you're dreaming. you're looking and you're still, oh my god. you look at the other one, oh my god.

then you realize they're looking at you, or everybody else is looking at you too. >> to have all three of them at the house at one time -- it was really madness. >> my emotions were shock, shock and more shock. i mean -- i -- you can't -- i can't explain it. i haven't got the terminology. >> one of our reporters came running over to me and said, you're not going to believe this, you are not going to believe the call we just got. you know the two kids on the front page today? well, there's a third. >> they even moved the same way. all of us just sat back and watched three separate lives becoming one. >> the way i put it was, i look more like eddy than i did david, and more like david than i did eddy, and more like either of

them like they did each other. does that make sense? and then we started comparing notes. >> what do 19-year-olds compare? booze, cigarettes, food, women, music, cars. i had just bought a brand-new mercury capri, which i loved. bobby had this maroon, beat-up, old volvo with cracked leather seats. and i'm like, son of prominent scarsdale physician, huh? >> i think it was eddy who said right at the beginning, i don't know if this will turn out to be great or terrible. >> so there was always a question mark, a big question mark about where the story eventually was going.

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