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Every night. my dad just sort of looked at me like, okay. and that was eddy. >> i do. >> i do. >> we love you. >> everyone loved him. if there was a scale, bobby would be reserved. david would be middle. and eddy was just the loveable, mushy, huggable, funny, you know -- he just exuded warmth and love. >> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. >> jamies first thanksgiving with daddy.

Eddy and robert and david, reunited after 19 years. >> a story about triplets that gives new meaning to the phrase 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...

>> i was on the new york subway. quite late at night. read an article about two boys who found each other that were twins separated at birth and found each other at sullivan county community college. there was no picture, but the story was fascinating. i came home and went to sleep. my mother came into the room and said, wake up, wake up, i have to show you something. and she shows me a newspaper with a picture of two boys. and i had to focus. and i looked at the photograph and i said, is that d...

She said, you see this? we kind of exchanged newspapers. it had born long irish jewish hospital, july 12th, 1961, and it was louise wise adoption agency. i mean, i always knew growing up that i was adopted. my parents were always open about it. but it said eddy galland of new hyde park, long island. robert shafran of scarsdale, new york. son of prominent scarsdale physician, mort shafran. and my first thought i said hes got the wealthy family. this s.o.b. is probably driving a benz, he got a doc...

>> davids father richard was 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 bubala. >> he was bubala. if you know yiddish, bubala, its like love, its hugging and its kissing. >> we spent more time at davids house than any place else. bubala 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...

We were all young and starting our marriages and careers. >> hi, welcome to triplets! >> david kellman, edward galland, and robert shafran are identical triplets. now they run a restaurant called, what else? you guessed it, triplets. >> welcome, hello and welcome. welcome. >> we had a lot of people coming for us. they came to see the triplets. they wanted to be waited on by one of the triplets. we served vodka frozen blocks of ice, and wed get the whole room up and dancing. >> it was like this b...

Watched three separate lives becoming one. >> the way i put it was, i look more like eddy than i did david, and more like david than i did eddy, and more like either of them like they did each other. does that make sense? and then we started comparing notes. >> what do 19-year-olds compare? booze, cigarettes, food, women, music, cars. i had just bought a brand-new mercury capri, which i loved. bobby had this maroon, beat-up, old volvo with cracked leather seats. and im like, son of prominent sca...

>> eddy was in the hospital for -- i think it was three weeks. and then he came back to work at the restaurant. i wasnt there. david was with him all the time. i think maybe he could give you better detail about it. >> i was running the kitchen. eddy wasnt in. i was running the kitchen, he was running the front of the house. thats the way it worked. and i didnt know where he was. and he lived across the street. >> so david called me from the restaurant and he asked me to look out the window to s...

"post." and i picked up the picture and i looked at it. and i was like in shock. because the two guys in the "post" look exactly, exactly like my -- like my friend david. i stared at it. and it wasnt even just the look on their face. it was the way they were holding their hands. they had these big, meaty hands. david always had these hands that looked like baseball mitts. and when i saw their hands, i just knew that this is david. >> it was just a normal day. i got to school. ran into my buddy a...

One day in 1980, 19-year-old Robert Shafran, of Scarsdale, New York, was in high spirits as he made his way to his new school at Sullivan Community College, in the Catskills. He had his whole life ahead of him, and was looking forward to meeting new people and starting the next chapter of his life,... Read more »