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Family. but my father was just this incredibly generous, warm guy. >> davids father was larger than life. if you can imagine this guy, he was a big guy with a big cigar hanging out of his mouth. >> he was bubla. if you know yiddish, its like loving and hugging and kissing. >> we spent more time at davids house than any place else. he celebrated us like no other person. he said, i have two more sons. >> when the boys found each other, it just sort of happened then and there. heres this wonderful ...

Larger than life. if you can imagine this guy, he was a big guy with a big cigar hanging out of his mouth. >> we referred to him as bubbla. >> he was bubbla. if you know yiddish, bubbla, its like love, its hugging and its kissing. >> we spent more time at davids house than any place else. bubbla celebrated us like no other person. he said, i have two more sons. >> when the boys found each other, it just sort of happened then and there. heres this wonderful story, and thats it. nobody questioned ...

Long-lost brothers. >> we went on everything. everything. >> youre not seeing double. you are perhaps in a moment going to be being triple. >> i dont know whos who here. come on out, gentlemen. >> you just had to stop what youre doing and watch them on every different show. >> it became a circus. it became a media circus. im talking about viral. i mean, this was -- it was viral even then. >> you guys have been on the front page of every newspaper in the world. >> true. >> true. >> "people" magaz...

>> in terms of how they parented their children, the three families were quite, quite different. davids father stood out. there was nobody in the world like his son. he was so proud of him. whatever he did was wonderful. bobbys father was very busy as a doctor. and didnt have the time to be with bobby that davids father had. but was as devoted to him as possible. the most traditional was eddys father. who was rather strict. he was the boss. he made the rules, and eddy was supposed to follow. >> ...

>> you know, eddy really, really loved being around david and bobby. eddy seemed to get the most out of the three of them meeting. for whatever reason. >> he wanted his brothers and him to have a beautiful life and everyone to get along. and he wanted everyone to be one big family. >> eddy was absolutely the driving force in terms of leading the search for our birth mother. he got a fever and he just wanted to do it. >> and alan was also rallying because it was just an exciting thing to do. >> w...

Bobbys parents, bobbys father was a medical doctor. and his mother was an attorney. so they were very well educated and they were living in one of the most prestigious areas of the country. eddys father was a teacher. he had a college education. and they lived in what would be considered a middle class neighborhood. my family on paper were the least educated. they were immigrants. english was a second language to them. they had a little store. they were the more blue collar family. but my father...

Benz. he got a doctor. >> and i remember being with david in the kitchen. we were like really nervous. i mean, we were jumping around. we were 19 years old. this was surreal. david picked up the phone and he called information. he reached eddies mom. >> i said, hi, is eddie home. she said no, who is calling please. i said, well, my name is david and i was born july 12th, 1961, and im looking at a newspaper is and basically i think im look iing at two of me. i think i might be the third. and i th...

Initially, i couldnt really tell them apart. i would bump into them and i wasnt quite sure which one i was going out with. bob has this very raw, natural type of intelligence that i think i was attracted to. >> i always thought david was the best, right, of the three of them. ive said it before, you know. i got the pick of the litter. >> without a doubt, eddy was the handsomest of all the three triplets. of course, im partial. but, you know. i adored him. when i met him, he was the last holdout....

>> it was just a normal day. i got to school. ran into my buddy allen. he said, david, take a look at this. and hes got a copy of the "new york post." and he opens it up. he says, look at this. look familiar? something to that effect. i said, yeah, right, sure. but then we looked at it a little more closely. it was an article that said twins reunited after more than 19 years. and it had the picture of two of what looked like me. it all started to sink in. holy -- oh my god, do you -- this is -- ...

Therapy. >> the three families were quite different. davids father stood out. there was nobody in the world like his son. he was so proud of him. whatever he did was wonderful. bobbys father was very busy as a doctor and didnt have the time to be with bobby that davids father had but was as devoted to him as possible. the most traditional was eddys father. he was rather strict. he was the boss. he made the rules and eddy was supposed to follow. >> reporter: et dis -- it couldnt have been good.