{"id":2168,"date":"2023-09-03T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:53:29","slug":"can-you-imagine-friends-of-60-years-finding-out-they-are-blood-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Can you imagine friends of 60 years finding out they are blood brothers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How often it happens that we communicate with a person all our life, but we do not know who he really is. In Hawaii, two men Alan and Walter were close friends.<\/p>\n<p>They have been friends since childhood. Their families lived next door, and the men went to the same school and studied in the same class.<\/p>\n<p>They were very connected to each other and even similar together. After graduation, they both began to play in the same football team.<\/p>\n<p>Alan and Walter had similar life stories. Alan did not remember his parents. A foster family raised him.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that they loved him as a native, he always dreamed of finding out who his biological parents were.<\/p>\n<p>Walter lived with his father and stepmother and dreamed of meeting his own mother. They both signed up for a site that looks for blood relationships.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madlyodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B1-Best-friends-for-60-years-discover-that-theyre-actually-brothers.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Robinson and Walter MacFarlane\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What was Alan\u2019s surprise when he found out that his closest relative was Walter. DNA test showed that the men are brothers.<\/p>\n<p>They were not only best friends but also brothers. It is as if they have to know each other. It turns out that they have a nephew, uncles and aunts. It was a real surprise.<\/p>\n<p>All their lives they lived side by side and did not know about their relationship. Alan and Walter are similar in appearance, but they never attached any importance to this.<\/p>\n<p>Together they decided to find their biological mother and began the search.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madlyodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B3-Best-friends-for-60-years-discover-that-theyre-actually-brothers.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Robinson and Walter MacFarlane\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to recent research, there is always a certain relationship between close friends.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers compared the genetic sequences of nearly 2,000 people who were not biologically related.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that friends have much more common gene variations than strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are unique in that they form long-term bonds with members of their own species.<\/p>\n<p>People prefer the company of people they are similar to.<br \/>\nMost people don\u2019t even know what their fifth cousins look like.<\/p>\n<p>However, one way or another, among the many possibilities, they manage to choose people who resemble their relatives as friends.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, close friends turned out to be relatives.<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friends of 60 Years Just Found Out They're Brothers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vcOCzpkG0ws?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often it happens that we communicate with a person all our life, but we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}