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Co-Workers Find Out They Are Long-Lost Brothers

Recently, a pair of furniture movers in Maine discovered that they are long-lost brothers.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on September 23 2009
Gary Nisbet and Randy Joubert

Brothers Gary Nisbet and Randy Joubert

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Since Gary Nisbet started working at Dow Furniture in Waldoboro, Maine two months ago, he’d been going out on delivery runs with long-time employee Randy Joubert. And every time they pulled up to a customer’s house, they’d receive a surprising question: “Are you brothers?”

With their bulky builds and golden-brown goatees, the two men looked a lot alike. But they’d grown up in separate towns, and had never met until the day Nisbet began working at the furniture shop.

Still, after hearing the question again and again, Joubert got a hunch. He had been adopted, and knew his birth parents’ names. He also knew that he had a younger brother, who had been adopted by another family. It seemed unlikely, but he figured it couldn’t hurt to ask Nisbet about his family history.

“Don’t think I’m weird,” Joubert warned, before launching into a series of questions. Was Nisbet adopted? As it turned out, he was. Did he know his birth parents’ names? He did—and they were the exact same names as the ones on Joubert’s own birth certificate.

The two men sat in stunned silence for a moment. Then “I said, ‘Gary, do you understand what I am telling you? We are brothers,’” Joubert told the Bangor Daily News. “I think I kept saying that. We had a few more deliveries and it was just the Twilight Zone.”

But the remarkable story doesn’t end there. Last week, after learning about the adoptive brothers’ surprise reunion, a woman named Joanne Campbell showed up at their workplace, birth certificate in hand. As it turned out, the family was about to get another new member: Campbell was their half sister.

“I’m really awestruck,” Campbell said. “After all of these years, here I am 41 and now I finally found my brothers.”

The siblings may have missed out on spending their formative years together, but now, thanks to these surprising circumstances, they’ll have the rest of their lives to become a family.

Check out this video interview with the two brothers.

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