man calls in an adoption agency to know about his birth mother, learns the biggest truth of his life instead

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They wondered how would their family react to it. “They’ll probably get mad at me if they hear this but I think they’re more similar than me and Howie,” Doug referred to his and Howard’s wives. How are they so similar?

Successful

Doug explained, “They both were runners. They both were successful in their fields and they both are pretty type-A personalities. I don’t know, I think they’re similar in a lot of ways. And you can only imagine that’s probably because what we both were attracted to…”

Unsettling Memories

Howie and Doug could not stop talking. There was a lot to catch up on. Both of them also talked about strange visitors that w would come to their house to film them, examine them and ask them questions. 

Kept From Parents

They also learned that the agency had kept adoptive parents of both in dark. None of them had been informed about their child’s twin sibling.   

The Research Study

David and Howard’s parents were told that this routine filming and testing were done because their child was a subject of research conducted to see the progress of adoptive children under the care of their adoptive parents. Unfortunately, their parent bought that lie.     

Everything Was A Lie

Lori Shinseki explained, “they decided to separate these twins and triplets, place them in different families, and never told the families that they had adopted a half of a twin set or a third of a triplet set.” She is a documentarian who helped Howard and Douglas and many other sets of triplets and twins that had to undergo separation by Louise Wise Services.