Wednesday, September 23, 2009

US man discovers co-worker is lost brother

       Seven years into his tenure as a furniture mover for a bedding retailer, Gary Nisbet was joined by a new colleague, Randy Joubert, who looked so much like him that customers asked whether they were brothers.
       "We thought they were just trying to razz us," Mr Joubert said.
       Turns out the customers were on to something: they really are brothers. And the attention they got after finding each other also has turned up a sister.
       The two men were given up for adoption as babies about 35 years ago, then attended rival high schools and even lived in neighbouring towns on the Maine coast before working together at Dow's Sleep Center in tiny Waldoboro and uncovering their relationship.
       "This kid could have been anywhere in the world, and here I am riding in a Dow furniture truck with him," Mr Joubert said in a telephone interview on Monday.
       Mr Joubert's adoptive mother,Jacqueline Joubert, said she and her late husband raised him with four sisters.She said he knew from a young age he was adopted and she wasn't surprised that he would try to find his siblings.
       "But when he said he was driving a furniture truck with him, that really surprised me," she said."I think it's great."
       Soon after Dow's hired Randy Joubert,co-workers began commenting on how similar he and Mr Nisbet looked.
       "Customers would ask if we were brothers more often than not," he said.Mr Joubert had already found out the names of his biological parents, who had already died. He asked Mr Nisbet if he'd been adopted while the two were making deliveries about three weeks ago.
       Mr Nisbet, who also knew his biological parents' names, was "star-struck and blown away" when his long lost brother revealed that he too was adopted and had the same mother and father.

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