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Times," good housekeeping. david, lets begin with you. which ones david? youre edward. >> im bob. >> youre robert. robert and edward. >> come on. >> it was a fairy tale story and people need to hear wonderful things. >> these three young men are all seated in the same position. >> it was amazing. they really were strangers. they looked identical to one another. they didnt know but their behaviors were so similar. >> our lives are paralleled to a phenomenal degree. its ridiculous. >> were all the...

>> more duplicitous. not just studying the kid, but theyre studying the parents. >> so they did in fact know the parenting style of each parent. >> they knew exactly what they had chosen to place each one of us with when they called the kellmans and the gallands and the shafrans. >> 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...

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. >> hi, look at you, baby. daddy decided to show up and make a special gathering. ♪ happy birthday dear jamie, happy birthday to you ♪ >> he loved family gatherings. >> you know, eddy really, really loved being around david and bobby. eddy...

>> 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" magazine, "time" magazine, even "the new york times," "good housekeeping." >> david, lets begin with you. which ones david? i keep forgetting. >> youre edward. right. >> okay. who are you? >> im bobb...

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 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. and he reached eddys mom. >> and i said, hi, is eddy home? she says, no, whos calling, please. and i thought, okay, now i got to go into this whole thing on ...

♪ ♪ (clap, clap) olly. when bobby left the business eddy and myself felt we were being betrayed. bobby felt that he was being pushed out. either way, it did major, major damage to the relationship. >> i think that took an extreme toll on eddy more so than i think david and bobby. eddy was always the one who just wanted to have everybody be at peace together and eddy was very, very upset about it.

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 was just this incredibly generous, warm guy. >> 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 els...

>> 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 thats it. nobody questioned what was going on except the parents, of course. >> when the families met up the first time, there was great anger in all of them about the ...

Kids but theyre studying the parents. >> so they did, in fact, know the parenting style of each parent. so this was not, you know -- obviously was far from a random selection. >> they knew exactly who they had chosen to place each one of us with when they called the gallands and the kellmans and the shafrans. >> 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....

When bobby left the business, eddy and i felt we were being betrayed. bobby felt that he was being pushed out. either way, it did major, major damage to the relationship. >> i think that took an extreme toll on eddy more so than i think david and bobby. eddy was always the one who just wanted to have everybody be at peace together. and eddy was very upset about it. he was kind of crushed about it. it was eating at him. >> he dearly loved them, and he wanted his brothers to be together.