r/BeAmazed • u/mikeyv683 • Jan 22 '25

History Identical triplet brothers, who were separated and adopted at birth, only learned of each other’s existence when 2 of the brothers met while attending the same college

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u/johnqsack69 Jan 23 '25

Imagine you’re high af at a college party and you see another you

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u/StraightBudget8799 Jan 23 '25

And your girlfriend is confused as to why you’re so standoffish this evening?

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u/Competitive-Kale-282 Jan 23 '25

the reason they figured out 2 of them is that they both went to the same college and had mutual friends who eventually figured it out

could be wrong lmao

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u/Mean_Muffin161 Jan 23 '25

Not even a friend. Imagine seeing the same mother fucker in two spots wearing different outfits like 5 minutes apart multiple times.

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u/Inside7shadows Jan 23 '25

"Hey, do you have a twin?"

"No."

???

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u/NuriaLuna87 Jan 23 '25

I'd think it's a glitch in the matrix or some paranormal sh!t 🤣

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u/menides Jan 23 '25

Whoa Deja Vu

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u/SGgirth Jan 24 '25

Not wrong since he’s not a twin

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u/Goose_on_a_Beanbag Jan 24 '25

Technically even if they did know of their brothers or didn't they have a twin. He'd have 2 brothers, no twin

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u/Csimiami Jan 23 '25

I was friends with a twin frieshman year in college. He didn’t tell me he was a twin. Fast forward and I see “him” in the cafeteria and run up and hug him. He’s all awkward and weird and tells me I must know his brother. They did not tell people on purpose to make everyone feel awkward. Annoyed 40 years later just typing this.

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u/Super_Ground9690 Jan 23 '25

My friend did this too! I saw him in town then like an hour later walked into a shop and saw him again working there. I go over and say hi, all “you didn’t say you got a job here!” and he just rolls his eyes and walks off. Turns out it was a fairly regular occurrence for him working in the same town as his brother who never bothered to tell anyone he was an identical twin.

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u/brainfreez012 Jan 24 '25

"Hi, my name is Joe. By the way if you see someone that looks like me, it isn't me. It's my twin brother." How does that even happen? 40 years later and your annoyed? Funny

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u/BoonyleremCODM Jan 25 '25

Sorry is this a cultural difference ? who runs up and hugs with no warning before knowing the person really well ?

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u/Csimiami Jan 25 '25

I was at that level of familiarity with the first twin. And I’m a chick. And was pretty bubbly 35 years ago. And I’m in CA. We’re just like that.

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u/rainman_95 Jan 23 '25

I mean, you see a lot of twins and triplets in the wild, one would just assume they were related. One wouldnt assume they didnt know each other, however.

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u/hereforthesportsball Jan 23 '25

The first time you see it you would immediately assume twins without a second thought tho right?

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u/Interesting-Ball-502 Jan 24 '25

I was at my grandfather’s funeral and met his twin. A heads up would have been nice.

(Jk)

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u/LegendaryKidKatana Jan 24 '25

My Dad and Uncle are identical twins working in the same factory. There have been multiple outside contractors have made remarks about how hard of a worker they are simply because one would be cleaning on one end of the factory and the other would be cleaning on the other.

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u/ZombieBambie Jan 24 '25

I met my friend's twin by chatting to her casually thinking it was my friend 😂 I didn't know she had a twin at the time and was so confused why she was looking at me like she didn't know me 😂

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u/xRyozuo Jan 23 '25

You are right. In the doc one of the guys says when he got to college everyone kept calling him the wrong name, and then an old friend of his brother came into his room like “what do you mean you’re not my friend x?!”

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u/Sea_Turnip6282 Jan 24 '25

I'd imagine they'd live the rest of their lives wondering if there's a fourth or fifth or nth brother

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u/bgwa9001 Jan 24 '25

Yea there was a documentary about it. They got super famous for a minutes and it ended badly

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u/SuspiciousFly_ Jan 25 '25

There’s a documentary on them one of them went to university one year then never went back then a second one went the year later and everyone was like I thought you weren’t coming back and he was like who are you

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u/wewerelegends Jan 23 '25

You would love The Prestige.

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u/musicmast Jan 23 '25

So you kind of spoiled it

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u/MEGLO_ Jan 23 '25

He killed it…

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u/IamBenAffleck Jan 23 '25

That movie's been out for at least 5 years, I think it's okay to allude to things.

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u/SympathyMiddle Jan 23 '25

More like 15

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u/Plastic_Past9898 Jan 23 '25

he's ben affleck from the past

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u/Daft00 Jan 23 '25

It does seem a bit counterproductive to do it when recommending it to someone though lol

Someone who presumably might not have seen it

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u/TeddyBear312 Jan 23 '25

Almost 20 years..

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u/IamBenAffleck Jan 23 '25

That's at least 5 years!

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u/Iswhars Jan 23 '25

“you mean it today”

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u/soothsayer3 Jan 23 '25

That’s what I call my left hand

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u/turbo_dude Jan 24 '25

No, I did not. 

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u/sturgis252 Jan 24 '25

Lol this happened in my high school (not girlfriend). But I had once a teacher. The next year I see her and I smile at her and she doesn't smile back. So I'm like ok rude. Halfway through the school year we realize her twin sister got hired too.

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u/DigitalWarHorse2050 Jan 24 '25

Or your GF spots you walking hand-in-hand with another girl, chases you down and starts yelling at you (well the other you). Quite a delima that could cause over all during college. Damn…

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u/instastoump Jan 24 '25

I know of another story on the place where my father was born. there are two twin brothers who are like around 35 yo or so and when they were in school one of them had a gf who was fucking both of them without knowing. From what I heard, after finding out, her mental state got fucked up. nowadays they both are stoned up all the time. they are from a kinda rich family so they dont care. I wil watch the movie of these three fellas as im quite intrigued.

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u/usenametobe3to20long Jan 24 '25

Or suddenly sex is way better and you tell that to the real bf after

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u/Perfect_Weakness_414 Jan 23 '25

Used to happen all the time.

Drugs were wild in the 60s man.

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u/EobardT Jan 23 '25

Those were mirrors dude.

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u/Perfect_Weakness_414 Jan 23 '25

Well they sure did talk a lot of shit for inanimate objects lol

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u/LinuxMatthews Jan 24 '25

Nah man I've seen mirrors they're like big grey things.

These dudes had faces and hands and were always the other side of windows in rooms that looked just like the ones I was in.

Honestly that shit still freaks me out.

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u/OfficerBarbier Jan 23 '25

Bro why are you guys fucking with me

Why is there a guy in a me costume wtf

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u/bloobityblu Jan 23 '25

Suddenly a lot of those GlitchInTheMatrix posts are explained.

(Sooooo many I have a doppleganger; people I don't know keep acting like they know me posts)

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u/DakotaXIV Jan 23 '25

I got on a plane one time and happened to see my doppelgänger. No idea why but my first reaction was to get furious. Like “how dare you steal my look.” I snapped out of it pretty quick but I still viscerally remember how wrong it felt

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u/marcdel_ Jan 23 '25

not the same but when i was in high school i was hanging out with my buddy who was in a band. we got really high and i was sitting in their drummer’s garage watching them practice.

i saw this motherfucker walk inside the house and then 30 seconds later drive up and get out of the car and it melted my fuckin brain.

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u/GeneralGringus Jan 23 '25

So the Spiderman meme?

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u/Few-Yogurtcloset6208 Jan 23 '25

I mean I hope they spiderman meme'd

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u/Overall_Room3248 Jan 23 '25

IIRC what happened was strangers on campus kept approaching him thinking he was another guy. Then the two of them were introduced. A while later the media hype reached the third brother.

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u/CuriousGio Jan 24 '25

Were they all wearing the same shirt when they accidentally bumped into each other at school?

Imagine if they all bought the same shirt at Sears because they wanted to make a good first impression that day for an event they were not aware of.

Imagine if taste was something written on our DNA.

Taste is the difference between Vincent Van Gogh and Hitler. Taste is the difference between Taylor Swift and Rebecca Black.

Taste is all you need to know about a stranger to know who they truly are. Taste requires a level of awareness that few people have. By this, I mean that having "good" taste means that one is aware of "bad" taste or taste that is devoid of thought or complexity.

My question is: Did these brothers share the same taste?

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u/cavmax Jan 24 '25

And you...

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u/AugustineBlackwater Jan 24 '25

You decide to switch places whilst shit talking sober up then realise it's the plot of a somewhat successful film starring the Olsen twins.

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u/samuelazers Jan 23 '25

i'd fuck me.

(relax guys it's from movie silence of the lambs)

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u/Competitive-Lack-660 Jan 23 '25

No such things as college parties for STEM grads