A 60-year-old man is shocked when a complete stranger approaches him in a restaurant and calls him a cheater – and discovers he has several siblings.
Phillip Granger decided he must have one of those common faces because, for as long as he could remember, people had come up to him and mistaken him for another man.
It’s no great consolation that his wife thinks he’s handsome when everyone else seems to think he’s plain. Things came to a head when Phillip, 60, went out to dinner with his wife.
Phillip and Mara went out to dinner to celebrate a deal she made at one of their favorite restaurants. He was holding his wife’s hand and leaning in to kiss her when a woman suddenly approached them.
“So you had to work tonight?” she yelled. “You had emergency surgery? You’re cheating on me! It’s over between us!” She threw her wine glass in Phillip’s face and left.
Phillip dabbed the red wine with his napkin and shook his head. “I’m sorry, honey,” he said to Mara. “I don’t know what’s going on!” But Mara stood up and followed the woman out of the restaurant.
Amazing things happen to ordinary people every day.
“Excuse me,” Mara said when she caught up with the woman. “Please, can you tell me what’s going on?”
Phillip and his wife were having dinner when something extraordinary happened. | Source: Pexels
“Who are you?” the woman asks angrily. “His girlfriend?”
“No,” Mara replied. “I am his wife.”
“Is he married?” the woman cried. “I swear this is the last time I’ll go out with a doctor! Dr. Ralf Gois! I should have known!”
“My husband’s name is Phillip Granger,” Mara said. “And he’s not a doctor.”
“You’re CHEATING on me! It’s over between us!” | Source: Unsplash
The woman looked embarrassed. “Oh my God!” she exclaimed. “But he looks exactly like Ralf! Like a twin!” By the time the woman left, Mara had the phone number of Dr. Ralf Gois.
“Listen, Phil,” she said. “This is very strange. This woman said this Ralf looks exactly like you, like a twin. You were adopted, so maybe this guy is your twin.”
Phillip was excited. He had grown up in a loving home, but his life had always felt empty, like something was missing—and now the idea of a twin seemed to ring a bell in his heart. This was what was missing! A brother or sister!
Phillip protests, “Maybe he’s just a lookalike,” but he lets Mara convince him to call Ralf and make an appointment. “Hello,” he says. “You don’t know me, my name is Phillip Granger, and I think we look alike…”
Phillip discovered that he looked exactly like a man named Ralf Gois. | Source: Unsplash
That same afternoon, Phil and Ralf meet and it’s like they’re looking in a mirror. They’re identical, and after a short conversation, they discover that they were both adopted, born in the same hospital on the same day!
The two men can’t help but laugh, cry, and hug each other. Ralf had never married, his parents were dead, and finding a brother was a dream come true.
Then Ralf said, “Hey Phil, we can find our mother! We were born at the hospital where I work, and I know they put all their records into the computers… All I have to do is type in our birthdate!”
The two men rushed to the hospital where Ralf led his new twin into his office and accessed the hospital records. “Easy peasy,” he exclaimed excitedly, and then Phil saw his brother’s face turn snow white.
At the hospital, Ralf looked at the birth records. | Source: Unsplash
“Ralf?” he asked. “Are you okay? Did you find her?” Ralf looked at Phil with huge, glassy eyes and nodded dumbly. “Come on, what’s her name?” Phil asked impatiently.
“Janet Corbin,” he whispered. “But Phil…”
“That’s great!” Phil said with a smile. “So what’s the problem?”
“There are five of us…” Ralf gasps. “FIVE!”
They discovered that there were five of them. | Source: Unsplash
Phil and Ralf took a selfie together and posted it on their Instagram accounts, telling their story and appealing to anyone who thought they looked like someone they knew to come forward: “Help us find our brothers!”
The messages poured in and soon Ralf and Phil met Tom and Gordon — and their reunion was incredible. They all looked the same! Mara told Phil that seeing him with his brothers made her feel dizzy.
“Mara,” Phil said quietly. “I’ve never felt so happy and complete in my entire life, but one of us is still missing!”
The four brothers took another selfie and repeated their call, and by then their story had gone national, with TV stations calling them for interviews. Then one night, the missing brother showed up, but he wasn’t alone.
The four brothers were having dinner when the doorbell rang | Source: Unsplash
Ralf, Phil, Tom and Gordon were having dinner at Phil’s when the doorbell rang and Mara got up to answer it. She came back with a huge smile on her face.
“Who was that?” Phil asks.
“Actually,” Mara said, “it’s you…” and she stepped aside so the four men could see the last quintuplet, who was exactly like his brothers. “This is David…”
David walked among his brothers, but he was not alone. Beside him was a small, elderly woman. “Here,” David said, “is Mother.”
The quintuplets have been reunited with their mother. | Source: Unsplash
The woman had tears in her eyes. “I’m Janet Corbin,” she said. “And I’m so sorry, so sorry…”
Janet explained that she was only 16 when she fell pregnant, and when she gave birth to quintuplets she was terrified.
Janet’s mother urged her to give away four of the babies and keep one to raise, which she did, but she never forgot her sons. Today, after almost sixty years, her family is reunited and her sons are healed.
What can we learn from this story?
- Family is the most important thing in the world . Phillip had always felt like something was missing in his life, until he found his brothers.
- Amazing things happen to ordinary people every day . Phil never imagined something so extraordinary could happen to him – until it did!
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