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When I was already an adult,
I dreamt that I had an identical twin.

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I woke up curious, thinking,

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"It'd be so cool
to have an identical twin."

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Then the unthinkable happened.

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Something I wouldn't believe could happen
if it hadn't happened to me.

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I saw the two photos on my phone
and was very shocked.

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I mean, they were the same.
"I can't believe it!"

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"He looks just like me."

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Everything took a turn,
I didn't understand what was going on.

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At some point,
I thought my life was a lie.

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It was like discovering a double life.

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Do you believe in soap operas?

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Because after this, your life will change.

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No one knows the pain you live with.

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I didn't have the right
to change people's lives.

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It's not easy to wake up one day
and learn your life is a lie.

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I really didn't know
which side of the mirror I was on.

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THE ACCIDENTAL TWINS

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I'm Jorge Bernal.

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I was born in Bogotá
on December 21st, 1988.

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I worked at a hydrocarbon company,

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where I had a friend named Laura.

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One day Laura said to me,
"Hi. How are you?"

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"I saw you in my area." I asked, "When?"

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She said, "Last weekend."

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I said, "But I wasn't in Kennedy."
She was like, "For real, I saw you."

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All this started…

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JORGE'S CO-WORKER

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…because of a company barbecue
that Yaneth and I were going to.

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They asked if I could buy the meat.
Yaneth told me, "Don't worry."

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"My boyfriend's cousin has
a butcher shop and he can help us."

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"He will give us excellent meat
at a great price." Okay.

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So we go into the butcher shop,
and William was preparing our order.

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WILLIAM'S FRIEND

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Laura was shocked to see William.

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I saw the butcher and he looked
exactly like my colleague, Jorge.

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I was shocked.

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"Yaneth, I work with him!" I said, "Hi!"
I was trying to say hi to the butcher.

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He looked at me with a blank expression.

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She left thinking it was me,
and that I didn't want to say hi.

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I always assumed that Jorge
was embarrassed to say hello,

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since I'd recognized him
while he was working at the butcher's.

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That's what I thought.

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She kept insisting.

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She actually said to me,

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"Hey, are you embarrassed
to say you work at a butcher shop?"

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I said, "I wouldn't be embarrassed,
but I don't work at a butcher's."

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"It's not me."

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I didn't think much of it.
I mean, I didn't believe it yet.

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He told me he had a brother.
Not identical, but a twin.

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So I was like,
"Oh, so he's the guy I saw."

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And he said, "I don't think so,
we don't really look alike."

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I kept bothering him for a long time
about his twin.

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We also made speculations.

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At some point he said to me,
"What if I have a lost sibling somewhere?"

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"A sibling my dad never told us existed."

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Some time later,
Yaneth came to work at the company.

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I didn't greet her,
because I didn't know her.

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But I noticed that
sometimes when I arrived,

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she would stare at me.

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I saw Jorge at the company,
and I said, "Oh my God!"

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I actually said to Laura,

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"He does look a lot like William,
but he's clearly not William."

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I don't know if that… It was like a dream.

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And all of a sudden,
it sparked my intrigue.

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I knew William was born in December.

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So, I asked Laura,
"Do you know when Jorge's birthday is?"

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We have a birthday board at work.

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I told her,
"I'll get that one. Super easy."

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I went and looked at the board
and sure enough,

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he was also born in December.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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DECEMBER
21 - JORGE

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So I said, "I think there is
something strange going on here."

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Then one day, Yaneth said to me,

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"Hey, I have a picture of William,
from the butcher's shop."

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"Could you show it to Jorge
and see what he says?"

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She comes to me, hands behind her back,

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with her phone in her hand, like,
"Remember what I told you?"

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"About the guy I thought was you?"

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"It definitely wasn't you."

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"But are you ready
to see your doppelgänger?"

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"I'll show you the photo."
He was like, "Let's see my twin."

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When he saw him, he was…

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He was completely… I mean, shocked.

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Obviously I was surprised,

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because there really was someone
who looked just like me. Identical.

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He started asking
our coworkers passing by,

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"How do I look in this pic?"

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And they'd say,
"You look good. Yes. Great." Cool.

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Let's ask someone else.
"How do I look in this photo?"

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So he was like, "Do you realize
that no one can tell that he's not me?"

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I said to a friend,

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"Look at this pic,
tell me what you think."

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He looked and said,
"What? It's you and some other guys."

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I said, "That's the funny thing,
that's not me in the picture."

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He went back and double-checked,
and said to me,

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"But he looks just like you."

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After a while I went downstairs
and asked her,

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"Could you get me his name,
to see if I can look him up somewhere?"

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"Facebook or something?"

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She said, "Look up William Cañas Velasco."

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I started to look for him and at him,
and to check picture by picture.

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And I was quiet, looking at a picture.
I'd review it completely.

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I found some photos where he didn't have
the mustache I saw in the first photo.

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He looked just like me.

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So that's when… I started to freak out.

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Also, like, "Something is happening here."

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When I thought that I'd seen everything,
and nothing else could happen…

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I came across the photo
that really changed everything.

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The one that turned
this whole story around.

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A girl I used to have lunch with
at the office wrote me,

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"We're looking at the pictures
of your boyfriend's cousin,

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he looks just like Jorgito."

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And I said, "Really?
You know something funny?"

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"William has a twin
that doesn't look anything like him."

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She said, "Same with Jorgito."

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And I said, "Do you have a picture
of Jorge with his twin?"

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"I'll send one of William with his twin."

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When I see both pictures
on my cell phone, I'm like,

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"Oh, my God. I mean,
they're two sets of twins and they're…"

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-Mixed up.
-"They're mixed up."

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There wasn't just one problem.

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-There were two.
-But two.

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One problem, bigger than we thought.

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I immediately sent them to Laura and said,

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"It's two sets of twins
that have been swapped."

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I was shocked.
It was something unbelievable.

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I couldn't believe what I was seeing,

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because in that photo was someone
identical to my brother.

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So I kept staring at that picture
and I was like, "Who is he?"

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And one of the comments said,

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"Brothers, joined at the hip."
But it said "brothers."

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Then I was like,
"Something is happening here."

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"What is this? A parallel world?
A mirror world?"

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I don't know. I felt very confused.

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It even crossed my mind that,

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"My life is a farce,"
or, "Something's going on."

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Because I didn't know who they were.
I mean, I was confused and shocked.

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And we started asking
a series of questions,

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of things that might indicate
that they are siblings.

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Twins.

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That they've been separated
for some reason.

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Then, of course,
we start by matching the birthdates.

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But some things didn't match,
like the birthplace.

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They were born in Santander.

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But I didn't understand.
How were they born in Santander?

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YANETH: WAS JORGE BORN IN SANTANDER?
LAURA: BOGOTÁ, I THINK

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YANETH: YOU SURE?

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And Laura said to me,
"No, he wasn't born in Santander."

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And I was like, "We failed. No."

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So, I asked my boyfriend,

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"Hey, do you know if they were brought
to Bogotá for some reason?"

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He said, "I think so. I'll ask William."

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Enough, Conchita.

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My name is William Cañas Velasco.

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Yaneth used to visit
the butcher's shop where I worked.

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I began to analyze and ask myself
the same questions that Yaneth asked me.

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We began investigating,

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because I always believed
that I was born in Santander,

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and grew up in Santander.

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It turns out I was born in Santander,
then brought to Bogotá.

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I called my aunt, and asked,

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"Auntie, do you know which hospital
I was brought to in Bogotá?"

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Then she tells me,

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"Yes, they brought you
to Materno Infantil."

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MATERNO INFANTIL HOSPITAL
ADMISSIONS

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Yaneth got the information about
the other twins, where they were born.

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They were born in Santander,

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but it turned out that one of them
had become ill while in Santander,

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since they were born at seven months.

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So one of the twins
was brought to Bogotá very ill,

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and arrived at the same exact hospital,
the Materno Infantil.

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So when we learned that, we said,

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"No, that's it.
It clearly happened at the hospital."

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"Nothing else to do."

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I went home. Carlos was there.

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He was there watching TV. I arrived.

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I'm Carlos Alberto Bernal Castro. I'm 34.

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I was on the phone
when Jorge arrived from college,

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he said to hang up, we needed to talk.

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And I know Jorge is a bit… Not a bit.
He's a big prankster.

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He is a big joker,

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so I asked what he needed to talk about,
that I was busy.

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I was like, "How are you, Carlos? Good?"

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"Do you believe in soap operas?"
And he said to me, "What happened?"

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All serious, like he is.

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And I said, "What happened?
I mean, be clear."

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"Do you believe in soap operas?"
He said, "No."

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I said, "I'm gonna show you something,
you tell me what you think."

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I said, "What? Jorge, stop bothering me.
I'm busy, tell me."

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"Because after this,
your life will change."

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I said it laughing,
but deep down I was serious.

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I knew what I was saying to him.

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I opened Facebook
and I showed him William's profile.

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I showed him the photos,
he put his face in his hands,

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he laughed, he took it as a joke.
He said, "That guy looks like you."

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I said, "What do you mean a double?"

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"I don't know what could've happened,
if Dad had another son on the side."

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I said, "I still haven't shown you
the best picture."

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We got to a picture where he was
with another person,

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with another guy,

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and I was just shocked.

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As soon as he saw that picture,
he stopped laughing.

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He asked me,
"Where did you get that? Who are they?"

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The guy who looked like my brother
was in a photo

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with a guy who looked just like me.

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That's when the fun was over,
the joke was over, and I went to my room.

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Once there I started to investigate.

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I got very nostalgic.

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I started to cry.

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I went back to Jorge's room. I hugged him.
I told him I loved him very much.

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A gesture that was very unusual
on my part.

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I'd only do that while drunk.

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For the first time,
I told him I loved him, sober.

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He told me, "Stop. Let it be."

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"Don't start investigating.
Don't do any of that."

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"Let it go."

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I did deduce immediately that
if someone was swapped, it had been me.

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Physically,
my brother looks a lot like my sister,

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he looks a lot like my mother,
and at the same time,

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I was always different from them.

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Clearly, my biggest fear was to think

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that my family from Bogotá
would reject me.

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That they would say,
"You're no longer our child here."

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"You're not Luz Marina's son.
There's nothing for you here."

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There were hard questions to ask,

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with answers that
were even harder to accept.

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It wasn't easy to face

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that I was not the brother
of who I thought,

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nor was I the son of the person
I most admired in this world.

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Deep down, I knew I'd keep investigating.

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He didn't want to, but I wanted to get
to the bottom of the matter,

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and find out what was going on.

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At times, Laura and I thought,

238
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"What if this thing ends
in a really tragic situation?"

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"Like, one of them commits suicide."

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So, considering all that,
for us, it was… terrible. Really.

241
00:16:37,162 --> 00:16:41,041
"When did I get involved in this?
I shouldn't have asked anything."

242
00:16:41,125 --> 00:16:42,668
"I shouldn't be involved."

243
00:16:42,751 --> 00:16:45,713
Because we didn't know
what was going to happen.

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We didn't know how they'd react
when they finally look at each other.

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The families!
I thought a lot about their mothers.

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00:16:56,181 --> 00:17:00,477
I told my husband, like I was gossiping,
"Imagine this happening to you."

247
00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:03,439
He said, "How dare you say
they were swapped?"

248
00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:06,400
I said, "Look at the evidence,
and the photos."

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He insisted that I not do anything,
that something bad could happen.

250
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That I could change people's lives
and I had no right to do that.

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Yes, he was right, clearly.
But no, I… I went on.

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After the second picture,
I decided to call Yaneth,

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and ask her for the phone number
of the guy who looked identical to me.

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I vividly remember that

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when the phone started ringing,
I didn't even know how I'd talk to him.

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My heart was beating so fast,

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'cause I knew on the other side
was someone like me,

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but I didn't know how he'd speak,
what he would say to me.

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I knew it was him. I picked up.

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I said, "What's up, man?
How are you doing?"

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00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:11,965
When I heard his voice,
for a moment I thought

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we weren't identical.

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I felt I was talking to someone
other than myself.

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00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:21,391
He spoke very softly,
like, "Hello, how are you?"

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"I'm William, the guy from the butcher's.
They showed me your pictures."

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00:18:28,899 --> 00:18:32,861
And all of a sudden I was like,
"Hey, where can we meet?"

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"There are already
many coincidences going on,

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00:18:36,865 --> 00:18:40,911
and I want to meet with you
to see what is going on."

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I said, "Of course! Where?"

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"Lourdes church, okay? Know where it is?"

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00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,042
"Yes. I know where it is."

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I said, "Okay. Does evening work?
Around 9:00 p.m.?"

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00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:51,672
"Yes, sir."

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00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:56,468
And that's when he told me
that he could meet me at night.

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I asked, "Are you coming alone?"
He said, "Yes, I'm coming alone."

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I said, "I'm going alone too."
I told him that.

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00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:11,024
I said, "I'll call Carlos
and tell him that I'm going to meet them,

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maybe he will come with me."

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I said, "What are you doing?
I'm going to meet them today. Come."

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00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:21,952
I remember one of the things he said was,
"I told you to let that go."

281
00:19:22,452 --> 00:19:25,581
But well…
I was already going to meet with them.

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00:19:29,877 --> 00:19:35,716
He said he was going to meet
one of them, and asked if I wanted to go.

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00:19:36,717 --> 00:19:40,804
I said, "No, I can't.
I'm working on my thesis. I can't go."

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00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:44,141
It's not that I couldn't,
I just didn't want to.

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00:19:44,224 --> 00:19:47,019
He said, "I'm not going,
you shouldn't either."

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00:19:47,102 --> 00:19:49,938
I was like, "Come on.
Nothing's going to happen."

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00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:53,358
"No. I'm not going.
I have things to do and I'm busy."

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00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:56,111
When he decided to actually meet them,

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I didn't want to,
I didn't want to face a new reality.

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I didn't want to face that situation.

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00:20:02,659 --> 00:20:04,536
I was too afraid of rejection.

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00:20:05,579 --> 00:20:07,414
As he insisted on meeting them,

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00:20:07,497 --> 00:20:10,334
I obviously couldn't keep him
from his decisions,

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00:20:10,417 --> 00:20:14,796
so I said to him, "I trust you,
just be careful, and keep me informed."

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I am Wilber Cañas Velasco.
I was born in Vélez, Santander.

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I grew up in La Paz with William.

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00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:38,487
He used to say
that we were identical twins.

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William worked in Kennedy.

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00:20:45,535 --> 00:20:49,373
He called and asked me to come there,
said he needed me urgently.

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I got to the shop. I greeted him.

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00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:57,381
Then he showed me a picture
of a guy identical to William.

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00:20:58,715 --> 00:21:01,760
And next to him there was another guy,

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identical to me. And a girl.

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00:21:05,722 --> 00:21:09,268
All I could say was,
"William, you're my brother until death,

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00:21:10,018 --> 00:21:12,187
and nothing will change that."

306
00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:16,066
That's all I could say at that moment.

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00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:21,363
Being a twin,
besides the physical resemblance,

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00:21:21,446 --> 00:21:27,536
is like having a blood double,
a double in thinking, in taste.

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00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:30,664
And I never felt that with Wilber.

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We were always fighting.

311
00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:37,296
Our parents tried to dress us
in the same clothes.

312
00:21:37,796 --> 00:21:41,466
But we weren't like each other.
We never understood each other.

313
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,928
When we'd fight, inside, I'd feel like,

314
00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:48,765
"I want to have someone identical to me."

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00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:50,726
I used to feel like,

316
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,353
my twin should be like me.

317
00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,068
Jorge and I had different tastes.
We didn't like to share.

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00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:05,407
He loved basketball, I love soccer.

319
00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:09,077
He likes hip-hop and rap, I like rock.

320
00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:13,540
So, little by little,
we started going on different paths.

321
00:22:17,794 --> 00:22:19,463
I called Wilber to tell him,

322
00:22:19,546 --> 00:22:23,967
"Wilber, I set up a meeting with the guy
who's identical to me."

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00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:28,889
Then he responded,
"William, you're my brother until death,

324
00:22:28,972 --> 00:22:31,099
but I'm not coming with you."

325
00:22:31,183 --> 00:22:34,478
And I said, "Even if you're not coming,
I'm going."

326
00:22:35,979 --> 00:22:38,065
When he saw I was about to leave,

327
00:22:38,815 --> 00:22:40,734
he said, "Wait. I'm coming."

328
00:22:41,401 --> 00:22:44,404
"I worry about you going alone
with so much insecurity."

329
00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:46,239
"It could be a set-up."

330
00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,117
It could be a set-up to rob him,
you never know.

331
00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:51,119
I am very cautious about that.

332
00:22:51,828 --> 00:22:55,707
We got a cab
and headed towards Lourdes Square.

333
00:22:56,541 --> 00:23:00,212
Obviously, we were talking about it
the whole taxi ride.

334
00:23:00,837 --> 00:23:04,132
What it was going to be like,
the guy I was going to see.

335
00:23:10,597 --> 00:23:15,352
The route to Lourdes church
felt like an eternity to me.

336
00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:21,316
It seemed very far because
I was very pensive, nervous, and worried.

337
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,987
And William was talking nonstop.
Like a motormouth, he wouldn't shut up.

338
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,991
I thought, "We don't know who the guy is.
Who knows if it's him?"

339
00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:39,000
When I was walking to Lourdes,

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00:23:39,501 --> 00:23:42,963
I ran into a very good friend of mine
from college.

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00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:45,757
I greeted him.

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00:23:48,218 --> 00:23:51,596
I said, "Dude, this thing happened.
Want to come?"

343
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,723
And I began to tell him the story.

344
00:23:55,142 --> 00:24:00,522
I'd never explained the story as
succinctly as I did then in three blocks.

345
00:24:00,605 --> 00:24:02,023
Well, he came with me.

346
00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:11,992
So we arrived to Lourdes Square.

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00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:13,201
LOURDES SQUARE
BOGOTÁ

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00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:16,371
We were standing, talking,
and I'll never forget something he said.

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00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:20,000
It was something like,
"Oh, he's coming, I can see him."

350
00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:26,214
"Here you come."
And we both burst out laughing.

351
00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:30,635
And I kept asking my friend quietly,
"Do I look like that?"

352
00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,429
He said, "Yes, you do."

353
00:24:32,512 --> 00:24:34,931
"Do I walk like that?" "You're the same."

354
00:24:38,977 --> 00:24:41,646
And I realized
William came with his brother.

355
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,024
William did not get there on his own.

356
00:24:44,107 --> 00:24:48,445
He went with Yaneth,
and Brayan, the cousin.

357
00:24:48,528 --> 00:24:52,115
Somehow I was…
I was very surprised to see him.

358
00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:59,206
And I said, "You brought the other one."
Meaning, Wilber.

359
00:24:59,956 --> 00:25:03,376
He said, "You didn't come alone either."
And we laughed.

360
00:25:06,213 --> 00:25:07,214
Look at that.

361
00:25:07,923 --> 00:25:09,424
William has lighter skin.

362
00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:10,717
Yes, he's lighter.

363
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,344
-From the cold.
-The cold.

364
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:17,516
-This is incredible. God!
-Yes, exactly.

365
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:18,433
Extraordinary.

366
00:25:19,309 --> 00:25:21,728
-What?
-He looks like William when…

367
00:25:21,811 --> 00:25:23,772
-It's just he was…
-The hair…

368
00:25:23,855 --> 00:25:25,273
He had a haircut today.

369
00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:27,025
-Otherwise…
-It was long.

370
00:25:27,108 --> 00:25:30,820
-Did you?
-But I think if I hadn't cut it, I'd be…

371
00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:32,447
With a beard, like this.

372
00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:41,289
Well, when I saw that person
who looked just like me, I was speechless.

373
00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:46,920
I greeted him, and it was not so much
an exchange of words,

374
00:25:47,837 --> 00:25:50,757
but more of an exchanging of emotions.

375
00:25:51,258 --> 00:25:54,386
When I looked at Jorge, I laughed.

376
00:25:54,469 --> 00:26:00,308
It made me laugh a lot because
he was just like William physically.

377
00:26:00,892 --> 00:26:04,938
It was a laugh, a guffaw, like Carlos's.
I'll never forget that.

378
00:26:05,021 --> 00:26:07,983
No, I see you
and it's like seeing my brother.

379
00:26:08,858 --> 00:26:11,111
-They laugh the same!
-He's missing glasses.

380
00:26:11,194 --> 00:26:16,950
I saw the resemblance he had to Carlos,
and that was what shocked me the most.

381
00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:21,121
Because you don't see yourself,
you don't have a mirror 24-hours-a-day

382
00:26:21,204 --> 00:26:25,208
to know how you act, how you gesture,
how you move your hands.

383
00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:26,418
I can't believe it.

384
00:26:28,503 --> 00:26:32,048
On the other hand,
I'd been watching Carlos for 25 years.

385
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:35,594
I knew every move Carlos made,
and I saw him making them.

386
00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:39,556
I'm not sure if what happened was better
or just looking at him on the street.

387
00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:42,475
That was what made me
a bit more freaked out.

388
00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:48,064
Somehow it got my attention,
more than seeing William himself.

389
00:26:48,148 --> 00:26:49,149
Oh, God.

390
00:26:50,942 --> 00:26:52,819
And I keep looking at him.

391
00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:55,280
There it was, the missing piece,

392
00:26:55,363 --> 00:26:58,199
so we could finally understand
what had happened.

393
00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:00,910
Because at one point William said,

394
00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:04,831
"When I was a newborn,
they brought me here to Bogotá."

395
00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:07,626
You weren't brought here, they took you.

396
00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:13,965
-What blood type are you?
-You're the same.

397
00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:15,467
We were laughing.

398
00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:18,428
I remember William and I
took a picture together.

399
00:27:18,511 --> 00:27:23,391
I remember Wilber said, "Now I want
to meet my twin," something like that.

400
00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:26,311
At some point they asked,
"So where is Carlos?"

401
00:27:26,394 --> 00:27:28,271
I said, "He's busy at home."

402
00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,523
I didn't say that he was unwell.

403
00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:40,825
I got curious and said,
"I really want to meet Carlos."

404
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:42,285
"Can we go?"

405
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:49,542
Jorge calls Carlos saying, "We're coming."

406
00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:54,005
I said, "Why are they coming here?
We didn't agree to that."

407
00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:57,050
"I don't want to meet them
or know anything about it."

408
00:27:59,427 --> 00:28:00,845
Then the doorbell rings.

409
00:28:02,222 --> 00:28:05,100
I said, "Damn. Fuck, they're here."

410
00:28:06,309 --> 00:28:11,147
Jorge knocked on the door,
and Carlos didn't want to open it.

411
00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:12,315
Yeah, there.

412
00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:16,194
From inside he laughed and said,
"No, I'm not opening it."

413
00:28:16,277 --> 00:28:19,656
Who's going to do it then?
Come on, open up!

414
00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:23,535
I didn't want to open the door
and face that reality.

415
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:27,914
He keeps laughing. Oh, my God!

416
00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:43,763
No way!

417
00:28:44,764 --> 00:28:48,226
When I finally got to meet Carlos,
when I saw him,

418
00:28:48,309 --> 00:28:51,646
I did see a reflection of Wilber.

419
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,816
In the way he laughs,

420
00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:58,486
how he grabbed his head in surprise
at what was happening.

421
00:28:59,946 --> 00:29:03,575
I was going to wear a gray hoodie.
I almost did.

422
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:05,660
I was shocked.

423
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:08,538
I have a brother like me.
Like seeing myself in a mirror.

424
00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:14,878
So there was a bit of…
laughter, jokes, nerves, discomfort.

425
00:29:15,712 --> 00:29:17,839
You could even say happiness, right?

426
00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:19,549
Because finding someone who

427
00:29:20,049 --> 00:29:24,429
is physically the same as you,
well, it's curious, isn't it?

428
00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:29,142
And even more so at
the age we were, at 25 years old.

429
00:29:33,646 --> 00:29:35,774
I felt cheated, because, well,

430
00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:37,942
I didn't grow up with my brother.

431
00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:40,445
I was told my brother was William.

432
00:29:41,237 --> 00:29:45,658
And then after 25 years,
a person that I've never seen appears,

433
00:29:46,242 --> 00:29:47,243
and he's my twin?

434
00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:51,915
I was kind of sad,

435
00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:55,835
'cause I would've liked
to have grown up with him,

436
00:29:55,919 --> 00:29:58,838
with my brother,
my own brother, with Carlos.

437
00:29:58,922 --> 00:30:02,300
But to have grown up with William too.

438
00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:05,470
Because even if William
is not my blood brother,

439
00:30:05,553 --> 00:30:09,265
he grew up with me and
I love him very much, like a brother.

440
00:30:20,568 --> 00:30:22,111
Here come the monsters.

441
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,322
-How are you, cutie?
-Smile, Wilber.

442
00:30:24,405 --> 00:30:26,074
-All natural.
-Now what?

443
00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,576
-You're here, brother.
-I'll borrow him for a second.

444
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:30,036
-Of course.
-Of course.

445
00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:31,329
Talent arriving.

446
00:30:32,580 --> 00:30:33,832
Handsome dude.

447
00:30:33,915 --> 00:30:36,751
After our reunion, we started to talk,

448
00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:41,548
and we wanted to go public
about what happened to us.

449
00:30:41,631 --> 00:30:45,844
And we said, well,
it's time to look for a TV network,

450
00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:49,347
because I know they'd like
to film with us.

451
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:53,476
And we managed to film the story
with Caracol, on Séptimo Día.

452
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,398
It was the first time
our story was told on TV.

453
00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:03,987
It was, without a doubt,
one of the most unforgettable stories

454
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:05,947
we've ever told on Séptimo Día.

455
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:09,701
At some point, in the NICU
of the Materno Infantil Hospital,

456
00:31:09,784 --> 00:31:12,078
were accidentally delivered…

457
00:31:12,161 --> 00:31:14,998
I am Juan Guillermo Mercado.
I'm a journalist.

458
00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:17,333
I am a reporter who is always looking
for unusual stories…

459
00:31:17,417 --> 00:31:18,668
JOURNALIST

460
00:31:18,751 --> 00:31:21,212
…chronicles, human stories,
investigative stories.

461
00:31:21,296 --> 00:31:24,757
I always wind up involved
with stories about reunions.

462
00:31:27,969 --> 00:31:30,305
I remember it as if it were yesterday.

463
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:32,765
The show's producer and director said,

464
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:38,396
"Juan, there's a story
about two sets of twins swapped at birth

465
00:31:38,479 --> 00:31:41,190
who found each other 25 years later."

466
00:31:41,274 --> 00:31:45,653
I said, "Well, this is happening
in the land of magical realism,

467
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:50,617
but here we could say
that reality has surpassed fiction."

468
00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:10,261
-Hello. Welcome!
-Thank you.

469
00:32:10,803 --> 00:32:13,973
-Hi, Gigi.
-Hello. Thank you very much. Jorge.

470
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:16,684
-Carlos.
-Carlos, we started on the wrong foot.

471
00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:19,771
I saw a picture of him with his brother,

472
00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:21,981
and he looked just like my brother.

473
00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:28,112
Like the audience, I started to laugh

474
00:32:28,696 --> 00:32:32,325
when I saw the picture of Wilber, my twin.

475
00:32:32,408 --> 00:32:35,620
Then he stopped laughing,
when he saw the picture.

476
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:37,372
The joke was over.

477
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:38,831
"WE WERE SEPARATED BY MISTAKE"

478
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:40,375
You guys are used to this.

479
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:45,046
You two with glasses were raised together
as twins, but you are not twins.

480
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:48,800
Yes, fraternal twins is what
they'd call us here.

481
00:32:48,883 --> 00:32:51,469
Of course. It's a beautiful mess.

482
00:32:53,054 --> 00:32:55,473
DECEMBER
1988

483
00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:57,767
MATERNO INFANTIL HOSPITAL - BOGOTÁ

484
00:32:57,850 --> 00:33:00,478
We knew two of the twins
were born in Bogotá, at Materno Infantil…

485
00:33:00,561 --> 00:33:01,396
DELIVERY ROOM

486
00:33:01,479 --> 00:33:06,359
…and the other two at Vélez Hospital,
in Santander.

487
00:33:06,442 --> 00:33:09,696
We looked for their
civil registries and medical records.

488
00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:13,241
We found records for Luz Marina Castro,
the Bogotá twins' mother.

489
00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:18,287
They were difficult to get,
because the hospital was shut down.

490
00:33:18,371 --> 00:33:21,457
The hospital was closed,
it was even in ruins.

491
00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:26,879
What we found in those medical records
was that they were born premature,

492
00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:29,716
that they had indeed been born
at seven months.

493
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:34,012
And we confirmed that with the other pair,
their mother, Ana Delina,

494
00:33:34,095 --> 00:33:38,349
had given birth at Vélez Hospital
on December 22nd at 10:00 p.m.

495
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:52,363
You could say that in 1988,

496
00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:56,743
the distance between the places
where the two sets of twins were born,

497
00:33:56,826 --> 00:34:02,373
in Santander and Bogotá,
could be between 12 and 14 hours by road.

498
00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:06,044
VÉLEZ REGIONAL HOSPITAL

499
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:09,005
One of the Santander twins was sick.

500
00:34:16,095 --> 00:34:20,308
On Saturday morning,
around 8:00 a.m. the doctor told me,

501
00:34:20,391 --> 00:34:21,809
"One of the babies is sick."

502
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:23,269
SANTANDER MOTHER

503
00:34:23,352 --> 00:34:24,854
I said, "What's up with the baby?"

504
00:34:24,937 --> 00:34:28,816
He said, "He won't stop crying,
he hasn't had a bowel movement."

505
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,860
He said, "We must send him to Bogotá."

506
00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:36,908
The doctor asked,
"Can anyone here go with him?"

507
00:34:37,992 --> 00:34:40,953
My mom arrived
and he sent the baby with her.

508
00:34:53,883 --> 00:34:57,887
The sick baby was moved
by his grandma all the way to Bogotá.

509
00:34:57,970 --> 00:35:02,850
But while he was hospitalized,
he was taken care of by an aunt.

510
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,778
And on Sunday,
my sister, who was in Bogotá,

511
00:35:15,029 --> 00:35:16,280
went to visit him.

512
00:35:18,991 --> 00:35:21,619
Then they released the baby to my sister.

513
00:35:21,702 --> 00:35:23,621
She sent him back with my mom.

514
00:35:29,418 --> 00:35:31,587
She gives him back to Grandma,

515
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:36,342
and Grandma brings him back,
after being hospitalized, to Santander.

516
00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:41,973
They gave her the wrong one.

517
00:35:42,056 --> 00:35:46,477
And she didn't realize it.
Of course. They were newborns.

518
00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:50,022
She received her little baby,
took it to Santander,

519
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:54,735
gave it to the mommy,
and the mommy didn't realize it either.

520
00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,992
The baby, who was born in Bogotá,

521
00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:07,165
was moved to Santander and
baptized there as William Cañas Velasco.

522
00:36:07,665 --> 00:36:11,460
And on the other hand,
the baby who'd been born in Santander

523
00:36:11,544 --> 00:36:16,841
had been moved to Bogotá,
and left with this family, in this city,

524
00:36:16,924 --> 00:36:20,261
and they baptized him
as Carlos Alberto Bernal.

525
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:32,064
It's not easy to wake up one day
knowing that your life has been a lie.

526
00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:35,943
Feeling that you lived
someone else's life,

527
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:39,780
or that someone else lived
what you should have lived.

528
00:36:44,535 --> 00:36:47,496
What was the psychological impact

529
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:51,584
on twins whose lives had been swapped?

530
00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:53,002
And their siblings?

531
00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:56,255
And who was legally responsible
for what had happened?

532
00:36:59,926 --> 00:37:02,595
We made an initial analysis
of the situation…

533
00:37:02,678 --> 00:37:03,930
PUBLIC ATTORNEY

534
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:08,017
…and we observed that there were indeed
some unanswered questions here.

535
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:15,149
Because it's not just a psychological
issue or an emotional issue,

536
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,151
it is also a legal issue.

537
00:37:23,574 --> 00:37:29,789
We are our parents,
our family environments, our histories.

538
00:37:30,831 --> 00:37:34,919
And so, in this case,
they were removed, against their will,

539
00:37:35,002 --> 00:37:40,800
and forced to inherit circumstances
that were not their own.

540
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:50,643
The birth of these children
took place at a health facility,

541
00:37:50,726 --> 00:37:55,064
and they should have received
the care that a delivery should,

542
00:37:55,147 --> 00:37:58,651
in this case, the delivery of twins,
and they didn't get it.

543
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:01,404
REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA
JUDICIAL BRANCH OF PUBLIC POWER

544
00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:08,077
Perhaps the most important question
we asked ourselves

545
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,956
was if it was possible to find out
what happened at the hospital.

546
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:15,751
How did this big baby swap happen?

547
00:38:18,087 --> 00:38:19,964
HOSPITALIZATION
ROOMS 238 TO 222

548
00:38:20,047 --> 00:38:24,844
Since it's a tertiary care facility,
many babies were born there.

549
00:38:24,927 --> 00:38:27,138
There was a lot of work.

550
00:38:27,221 --> 00:38:30,182
Many patients would come
from all over the country.

551
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:31,976
NURSE AT MATERNO INFANTIL HOSPITAL

552
00:38:32,059 --> 00:38:35,813
Sometimes we had to put two babies
in one crib, or two in one incubator.

553
00:38:36,439 --> 00:38:41,610
Also, when twins are born, they're marked,
"Twin 1" or "Twin 2," and "Child of…"

554
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,823
The baby from Bogotá,
who could have gone to pediatrics here,

555
00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:48,868
was Twin 2,
according to the medical record.

556
00:38:50,786 --> 00:38:52,413
It could be that

557
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:55,708
one of the babies' bracelets fell off

558
00:38:56,292 --> 00:38:57,710
and it wasn't reported.

559
00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:03,424
I don't really know

560
00:39:04,383 --> 00:39:07,636
what could have happened
with the swap of the twins.

561
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:13,684
Part of what has been said here
is that the swap was not intentional.

562
00:39:13,768 --> 00:39:18,397
It appears there was
some external circumstance, some accident.

563
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,277
I understand that
one of the babies was born sick…

564
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:25,154
NURSE AT MATERNO INFANTIL HOSPITAL

565
00:39:25,237 --> 00:39:26,822
…he needed oxygen.

566
00:39:26,906 --> 00:39:30,576
So that baby was the one
that was transferred to pediatrics.

567
00:39:30,659 --> 00:39:32,244
The other stayed with the mother.

568
00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:34,872
The bracelet could have fallen off,

569
00:39:34,955 --> 00:39:39,877
but a nurse, or the doctor,
or whoever is there, should say,

570
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,882
"This baby's bracelet fell off,
and there are two here, so who is who?"

571
00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:48,552
There's no other way
it could have happened.

572
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:53,891
I mean, I don't think a big swap like that
has ever been done on purpose.

573
00:39:53,974 --> 00:39:54,850
Never.

574
00:39:56,435 --> 00:40:01,690
How many babies have they received
over the years at an institution this big?

575
00:40:02,274 --> 00:40:04,235
How many times has this happened?

576
00:40:05,194 --> 00:40:08,948
How many people in the same conditions,
and they don't know about it?

577
00:40:13,702 --> 00:40:15,955
And so, we want to officially say,

578
00:40:16,038 --> 00:40:20,626
that none of us present here
were involved in this big swap.

579
00:40:20,709 --> 00:40:24,046
It happened and…
Unfortunately it happened.

580
00:40:24,839 --> 00:40:28,300
It really can't be denied
that it happened at Materno.

581
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:34,557
In this specific case,
part of the problem, let's say legally,

582
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,225
is nobody wants to respond.

583
00:40:36,308 --> 00:40:39,854
The entities that have defended the suit,

584
00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:42,606
all of them,
in one way or another have said,

585
00:40:42,690 --> 00:40:45,734
"This has nothing to do with me."

586
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:03,502
I think it was Christmastime.
It was party season.

587
00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:05,087
There wasn't much order.

588
00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:09,592
The medical staff was a bit distracted,
because it was Christmastime.

589
00:41:24,815 --> 00:41:28,194
As a result of
Juan Guillermo's investigation,

590
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:31,363
I realized that
I was not born in Santander,

591
00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:32,990
but here, in Bogotá.

592
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:40,164
And that is where the swap occurred.
I was taken from Bogotá to Santander.

593
00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:43,000
And that's where I grew up.

594
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:47,004
In a place, well…
where I shouldn't have grown up.

595
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:48,923
He was different.

596
00:41:49,006 --> 00:41:50,716
I never acknowledged it.

597
00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:53,511
Why he didn't look like the others.

598
00:41:54,470 --> 00:42:00,684
Well, I kept taking care of him until--
until he grew up.

599
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,145
Until we discovered the truth.

600
00:42:03,229 --> 00:42:06,815
And I'm still taking care of him.
I still take care of him.

601
00:42:10,903 --> 00:42:13,989
Then I asked about the parents.

602
00:42:14,657 --> 00:42:19,286
Jorge tells me, "Well, my mother…

603
00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:22,498
she passed away four, five years ago."

604
00:42:22,581 --> 00:42:27,545
He said, "My father didn't live with us,
but he also passed away."

605
00:42:29,421 --> 00:42:35,386
Not having met my mother from Bogotá…
well, it was difficult for me,

606
00:42:35,469 --> 00:42:40,766
because I would've at least liked
a greeting, a hug from her, because…

607
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:44,019
well, she was my blood.

608
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,691
For me, the hardest part was knowing

609
00:42:48,774 --> 00:42:52,987
that the person I most admired in my life,
was not my biological mother.

610
00:42:54,113 --> 00:42:57,658
That the human being to whom you owe
everything you are,

611
00:42:58,158 --> 00:43:00,286
isn't your mom, doesn't share your blood.

612
00:43:03,831 --> 00:43:08,002
There's emotional shock,
ego shock as well.

613
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:11,255
It's not easy when,
from one moment to the next,

614
00:43:11,338 --> 00:43:13,632
everything you thought you were,

615
00:43:13,716 --> 00:43:16,260
in one way or another, isn't yours.

616
00:43:16,343 --> 00:43:18,387
You feel you've stolen a life.

617
00:43:18,470 --> 00:43:22,891
That you've even stolen
someone's happiness.

618
00:43:33,986 --> 00:43:37,656
I locked myself up, like,

619
00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:42,953
in a world where only I lived,
where only I existed.

620
00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:48,667
I tried to clarify many questions,
many conundrums.

621
00:43:48,751 --> 00:43:51,587
What would've happened
if I'd grown up there?

622
00:43:51,670 --> 00:43:54,632
What would've happened
if my mom had met them?

623
00:43:55,215 --> 00:43:59,470
What would her reaction to me have been?
Would she have accepted William?

624
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:07,353
William and Carlos were deeply
and seriously affected psychologically

625
00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:08,604
by the situation.

626
00:44:08,687 --> 00:44:12,691
And Carlos, who had grown up in Bogotá,
but was born in Santander,

627
00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:17,154
did not want to acknowledge
his rural origins.

628
00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:25,204
The place where they grew up
is a rural place,

629
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:28,666
where armed groups
have historically been present,

630
00:44:29,541 --> 00:44:34,338
both guerrillas and militias,
all financed by drug trafficking.

631
00:44:34,838 --> 00:44:37,466
Going to Santander
was also very complicated,

632
00:44:37,549 --> 00:44:41,845
because almost nobody knew
the internal battles I had to deal with

633
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:44,932
to even be able to smile
at someone I didn't know,

634
00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:48,977
or hug someone who did not inspire
any kind of affection in me.

635
00:44:49,561 --> 00:44:53,691
He didn't want to go to La Paz.
He didn't want to visit his mother.

636
00:44:54,191 --> 00:44:58,153
He didn't want to recognize her
as his biological mother.

637
00:45:01,031 --> 00:45:03,158
-Anita.
-Welcome. How are you?

638
00:45:03,242 --> 00:45:05,035
-Welcome, son.
-I told you I'd come.

639
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:10,165
When he first went to Santander,
he found it too remote.

640
00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:12,876
He wasn't comfortable there.

641
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,505
Maybe because of a lack of trust
with my other siblings,

642
00:45:17,131 --> 00:45:18,424
with my mom and dad.

643
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:22,636
A very delicate issue,
because for 25 years

644
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:27,141
he was convinced that his family,
his mother and father were here in Bogotá,

645
00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:30,519
and when he found out that
that was not so,

646
00:45:30,602 --> 00:45:33,814
well, that was very complicated for him.

647
00:45:33,897 --> 00:45:38,277
CARMELO AND ANA DELINA
SANTANDER PARENTS

648
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,612
He won't call me "Mom," but I understand.

649
00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:43,198
He grew up with another family.

650
00:45:43,699 --> 00:45:45,117
He won't call me Mom.

651
00:45:46,285 --> 00:45:47,244
Same as William.

652
00:45:47,327 --> 00:45:50,873
If his mom were still alive,
he wouldn't call her mom either.

653
00:45:51,373 --> 00:45:52,833
I understand that.

654
00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:05,471
He can accept things. He can accept
that my mom is his mom, but…

655
00:46:05,554 --> 00:46:08,974
it's hard for him because he had a mother
here in Bogotá who raised him.

656
00:46:09,057 --> 00:46:12,936
And when Mrs. Luz Marina died,
he suffered a lot.

657
00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:16,023
He felt the loss of his mother.

658
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,070
We all understand that,

659
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:25,574
because parents aren't who made you,
but who raised you.

660
00:46:25,657 --> 00:46:31,371
Then, seeing another woman as his mom,
even if it is his real mother,

661
00:46:31,455 --> 00:46:35,334
is hard for him to adapt to and accept.

662
00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:46,345
William was in pain.

663
00:46:47,012 --> 00:46:51,058
It was a pain almost like mourning
that he was starting to experience

664
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,019
at not knowing his biological mother.

665
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:55,979
He was suffering a lot.

666
00:46:56,063 --> 00:47:00,692
He said, "Well, the others,
maybe Carlos, did get to see his parents,

667
00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:05,405
and know his biological parents,
that is, my adoptive parents. I didn't."

668
00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:10,035
What is it, William?

669
00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:16,708
Nothing, I'm just venting.
I'm the most affected by all this, but…

670
00:47:16,792 --> 00:47:19,336
No, don't feel like that.

671
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:24,091
I'm crying because I couldn't meet
their parents as my own parents.

672
00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:25,759
It wasn't possible, but…

673
00:47:28,262 --> 00:47:30,764
But God's will is like that. All is well.

674
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,683
It hit William very hard.

675
00:47:32,766 --> 00:47:38,355
When he found out and he knew that
his real parents had passed away,

676
00:47:39,106 --> 00:47:41,567
he'd be served food and wouldn't eat it.

677
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:44,152
William became very sad,

678
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:47,906
knowing that he'd grown up
in a family that was not his own.

679
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,826
Obviously, he started to take inventory.

680
00:47:50,909 --> 00:47:54,329
Like, "Of course, I don't look like
any of my siblings."

681
00:47:54,413 --> 00:47:56,331
"I don't belong to this family."

682
00:47:56,415 --> 00:48:00,252
William, do you feel the impact of this
has changed your life?

683
00:48:00,335 --> 00:48:01,670
It's not that I cry

684
00:48:01,753 --> 00:48:05,173
'cause I feel like I'm not their sibling
or they're not my siblings anymore,

685
00:48:05,257 --> 00:48:07,551
it's more about the adrenaline I feel.

686
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:16,268
I remember very well that
for two or three days I couldn't sleep.

687
00:48:16,351 --> 00:48:22,608
And it was also difficult when the family,
people close to me, started to find out.

688
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:25,027
They'd come talk to me about it, like…

689
00:48:25,110 --> 00:48:28,864
"Is it true you're not really
Mrs. Ana from Santander's son?"

690
00:48:28,947 --> 00:48:30,032
"You have another mom?"

691
00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:34,912
For the aunt who took the baby
from the clinic,

692
00:48:35,412 --> 00:48:37,915
it was terrible. Obviously she thought,

693
00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:41,793
"This was my fault.
I took a baby that wasn't my sister's."

694
00:48:41,877 --> 00:48:45,839
"So this is all my fault."
She also started feeling terrible.

695
00:48:46,381 --> 00:48:51,637
My God, when she told me that news,
I cried. I cried to death.

696
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:54,056
I thought,
"My Chinillo will toss me aside."

697
00:48:54,139 --> 00:48:55,974
"William will leave."

698
00:48:56,058 --> 00:48:59,269
That was what I thought,
that he'd leave us alone.

699
00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:02,356
Look, Carlos,
these are all my siblings, right?

700
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:06,443
Those are yours,
but they're mine too, right?

701
00:49:06,526 --> 00:49:07,611
-We all…
-Yes, bro.

702
00:49:07,694 --> 00:49:11,573
When I learned what happened,
it was really tough for me.

703
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:17,496
Alcira, Wilber, Efraín, Edgar, and…

704
00:49:17,579 --> 00:49:18,497
-Ancelmo.
-Ancelmo.

705
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:20,666
I thought that I might lose him.

706
00:49:20,749 --> 00:49:21,959
ELDEST SANTANDER BROTHER

707
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:25,545
That he might go, he might leave, and…

708
00:49:25,629 --> 00:49:30,884
Well, I would've lost the brother
who was the most understanding,

709
00:49:32,052 --> 00:49:33,637
and loving with me.

710
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:34,846
We were very close.

711
00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:37,891
They say there is another brother.
What is he like?

712
00:49:38,642 --> 00:49:44,022
I was thinking, what if he is a…
maybe he's a man of the street, or a con.

713
00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:46,191
I thought so much about that.

714
00:49:46,274 --> 00:49:49,319
-No, these are tears of happiness.
-Thank you.

715
00:49:51,571 --> 00:49:53,448
I never thought…

716
00:49:55,701 --> 00:49:58,328
-Jorgito, come, you're my brother too.
-Come.

717
00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:01,456
Seeing that, at that moment,
was difficult for me.

718
00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:04,459
I didn't want anything bad
happening to anyone.

719
00:50:04,543 --> 00:50:07,254
I mean, it was really unexpected.

720
00:50:07,337 --> 00:50:12,009
All the information came to us bit by bit,
it just kind of happened.

721
00:50:12,092 --> 00:50:15,679
I didn't want to get to the point
of someone getting hurt.

722
00:50:15,762 --> 00:50:19,307
So, seeing how William was so sad,
his family too,

723
00:50:19,391 --> 00:50:21,143
people were feeling guilty.

724
00:50:21,226 --> 00:50:25,814
I really said to Laura at one point, like,
"We shouldn't have done this."

725
00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:29,901
Ma'am, I know it's very emotional
for you to hear all this.

726
00:50:29,985 --> 00:50:31,778
What has been your experience?

727
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,991
Well, at the beginning it was very sad

728
00:50:37,409 --> 00:50:38,994
to know that my son was…

729
00:50:39,828 --> 00:50:43,540
I had raised someone who was not my son.

730
00:50:48,628 --> 00:50:52,507
Of all my children, I loved him the most.

731
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:55,218
Because he adored me very much.

732
00:50:55,969 --> 00:50:58,930
He was always with me.
Wherever I went, he went.

733
00:51:01,308 --> 00:51:06,063
One way or another,
she gets sad, she starts crying.

734
00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:07,981
I tell her, "Mommy, don't cry."

735
00:51:08,065 --> 00:51:11,443
"Or cry and rest because
if you do cry, you'll want rest."

736
00:51:11,943 --> 00:51:16,740
"But don't think that
I'm going to another family now."

737
00:51:16,823 --> 00:51:18,784
I tell her, "No, Mom. I'm here."

738
00:51:18,867 --> 00:51:22,954
"And I'm going to do
whatever needs to be done here,

739
00:51:23,038 --> 00:51:25,540
and we are going to work to move forward."

740
00:51:25,624 --> 00:51:29,669
"If I was taking care of you,
looking out for you at 50% before,

741
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:34,925
now I'm going to double or triple
how much I take care of you."

742
00:51:41,848 --> 00:51:42,849
What do you feel?

743
00:51:43,475 --> 00:51:46,728
My heart is racing.

744
00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:57,322
When I met them, Anita hugged me.
She prayed for me.

745
00:51:57,405 --> 00:52:01,660
I can say that I was calm because
I'd had a mother all my life.

746
00:52:02,327 --> 00:52:03,662
I had a great one.

747
00:52:12,045 --> 00:52:13,588
Want to introduce them, Wilber?

748
00:52:13,672 --> 00:52:16,424
Carlos, these are my parents.
Your parents.

749
00:52:28,895 --> 00:52:31,731
When Carmelo hugged me,
there were mixed emotions,

750
00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:35,443
because for the first time in my life
I felt a fatherly embrace.

751
00:52:35,527 --> 00:52:40,282
Carmelo was a man of about 1.90 meters.
Ex-military.

752
00:52:40,365 --> 00:52:43,034
Seeing such a strong person

753
00:52:43,743 --> 00:52:47,122
break down emotionally
for the first time over his son…

754
00:52:56,965 --> 00:52:59,092
May God bless you, my precious son.

755
00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:05,015
May the Lord bless you and be with you,
my precious and adored son.

756
00:53:10,312 --> 00:53:13,607
Someone once asked me
if I missed out on having a father.

757
00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:16,693
I said, "You can't miss
what you've never had."

758
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,407
Right? But feeling a fatherly embrace,
for me, it was something new.

759
00:53:22,490 --> 00:53:26,870
It was a novel sensation,
it was a unique sensation.

760
00:53:27,412 --> 00:53:30,498
It took 25 years to know
what a fatherly embrace was.

761
00:53:31,082 --> 00:53:34,502
And that also completely touched me.

762
00:53:34,586 --> 00:53:37,380
Many people say
there's no mother like your own,

763
00:53:37,923 --> 00:53:40,717
while a father…
We know how the saying goes.

764
00:53:41,343 --> 00:53:44,304
For the first time,
I felt a nice fatherly embrace.

765
00:53:45,472 --> 00:53:50,101
And it was something very…
Spiritually, it was very fulfilling.

766
00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:53,897
Don't cry. This is God's will, okay?

767
00:54:07,327 --> 00:54:11,456
Though we've been very different
since childhood, since adolescence,

768
00:54:11,539 --> 00:54:12,832
he's my brother.

769
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:23,802
At that moment,
when I shook William's hand,

770
00:54:23,885 --> 00:54:28,306
I felt that charisma in him,
that good energy.

771
00:54:28,390 --> 00:54:33,353
Then I saw myself more,
and I felt that click at once.

772
00:54:33,436 --> 00:54:37,440
I felt like,
besides discovering the truth,

773
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:40,443
I found my real brother.

774
00:54:42,237 --> 00:54:46,783
We hugged each other goodbye and I said,
"I love you so much." He said it too.

775
00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:49,035
That was the first day we met.

776
00:54:49,786 --> 00:54:51,746
I saw Carlos's reaction.

777
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:55,083
Carlos sometimes wears
the mask of a tough guy,

778
00:54:55,166 --> 00:54:58,378
but I know that inside
he is fragile sometimes.

779
00:54:58,962 --> 00:55:02,299
And I realized that he, somehow,

780
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:07,470
was falling apart, he was feeling bad,

781
00:55:07,554 --> 00:55:10,390
because he thought he was losing me.

782
00:55:13,518 --> 00:55:16,396
I was suddenly afraid that,
knowing how Jorge is,

783
00:55:17,564 --> 00:55:21,776
he would want to establish a relationship
like he never had with me.

784
00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:26,698
Because of our preferences,
our priorities, because of our passions.

785
00:55:27,949 --> 00:55:32,245
Then I compared myself to a little child
who has a toy and doesn't use it,

786
00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:33,872
and someone takes it away.

787
00:55:33,955 --> 00:55:36,291
I didn't want that, to lose my brother.

788
00:55:36,374 --> 00:55:40,128
I was afraid that he'd rather be
with William than with me.

789
00:55:40,628 --> 00:55:42,756
That he'd say,
"You're not my brother anymore."

790
00:55:42,839 --> 00:55:46,259
"I live what I live with William,
and you can't replace him."

791
00:55:56,561 --> 00:55:57,979
Good afternoon.

792
00:55:58,063 --> 00:56:00,523
-How are you?
-Good. Oh, you're identical!

793
00:56:00,607 --> 00:56:01,441
Right.

794
00:56:04,527 --> 00:56:05,945
You look just alike.

795
00:56:11,034 --> 00:56:14,913
They always tried to give me
the same haircut as my brother,

796
00:56:15,663 --> 00:56:17,165
but we didn't look alike.

797
00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:19,918
-You too, Jorge?
-What?

798
00:56:20,001 --> 00:56:22,587
Did they try to give you
the same hair as Carlos?

799
00:56:22,670 --> 00:56:23,546
Of course.

800
00:56:24,089 --> 00:56:28,885
In fact, my mom would take us
to see trainees,

801
00:56:30,011 --> 00:56:32,180
and it was easiest to just shave us bald,

802
00:56:32,263 --> 00:56:34,933
then it would be longer
before we needed to go back.

803
00:56:35,016 --> 00:56:38,019
When we grew up,
we each had our own hairstyle,

804
00:56:38,853 --> 00:56:41,940
that's when the differentiation
from Carlos started.

805
00:56:42,023 --> 00:56:44,067
Each establishing our own personality.

806
00:56:45,193 --> 00:56:47,153
But as kids, you'd go to the…

807
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:50,031
To the free haircuts with beginners.

808
00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:51,991
What? Do we look alike, or not?

809
00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:53,660
-Identical.
-Two peas in a pod.

810
00:56:53,743 --> 00:56:54,577
Yes.

811
00:56:56,287 --> 00:56:59,541
William and I started to share,
to dress alike.

812
00:56:59,624 --> 00:57:01,626
Many things that with Carlos--

813
00:57:01,709 --> 00:57:04,754
If I'd asked him,
he probably would've said yes,

814
00:57:04,838 --> 00:57:09,259
but I didn't ask because
he was so serious, so I just didn't.

815
00:57:22,021 --> 00:57:26,943
Cortito passes to Tobón, centers it… Goal!

816
00:57:27,026 --> 00:57:30,196
Carlos began to greet me more seriously.
More roughly.

817
00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:33,658
Because he felt bad, he was hurt inside.

818
00:57:38,037 --> 00:57:41,249
I wanted him to feel better.
I was thinking, analyzing.

819
00:57:41,332 --> 00:57:45,670
I said, "What can I do
to make him feel better?"

820
00:57:46,296 --> 00:57:52,051
"To make him understand that
I still care for him, that I love him?"

821
00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:54,095
Because he was still my brother.

822
00:58:17,577 --> 00:58:22,332
Nothing better than putting him
next to the tattoo of my mother.

823
00:58:22,832 --> 00:58:26,294
I had reserved the space
for a tattoo of my sister,

824
00:58:26,377 --> 00:58:31,216
but because of what happened,
I wanted to give that spot to Carlos.

825
00:58:32,050 --> 00:58:37,639
I wanted him to feel
that he was still part of my world.

826
00:58:38,223 --> 00:58:42,310
The moment he saw that tattoo,
he understood,

827
00:58:42,393 --> 00:58:44,896
and somehow his attitude changed.

828
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:50,026
And I also feel that it helped him,
in a way, to accept William.

829
00:59:04,749 --> 00:59:11,422
When I met William,
let's say there were some differences,

830
00:59:11,506 --> 00:59:14,717
there were some disagreements
on both sides.

831
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:17,720
I was talking about things
I knew nothing about.

832
00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:20,265
I didn't put myself in William's shoes.

833
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:23,851
"You grew up in the city,
you have privileges."

834
00:59:23,935 --> 00:59:25,770
"You couldn't grow up in the country."

835
00:59:25,853 --> 00:59:28,898
That growing up in the country
would've been too hard for me.

836
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,025
That happened to both of us.

837
00:59:31,109 --> 00:59:33,820
With time, we learned to listen
and understand

838
00:59:33,903 --> 00:59:37,365
that each of us grew up
with pros and cons.

839
00:59:38,241 --> 00:59:40,368
Our relationship is very good now.

840
00:59:40,451 --> 00:59:43,705
I'm his son's godfather.
We travel together, just us.

841
00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:45,915
The relationship is very pleasant.

842
00:59:45,999 --> 00:59:50,378
And I have no biological
or civil tie to William.

843
00:59:50,461 --> 00:59:56,759
Happy birthday to you

844
00:59:56,843 --> 01:00:03,057
Happy birthday to you

845
01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:09,355
Happy birthday to you…

846
01:00:10,356 --> 01:00:16,779
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to you…

847
01:00:21,326 --> 01:00:23,411
I went all the way to their homes.

848
01:00:23,953 --> 01:00:27,665
I went to the butcher shop.
Went to Carlos and Jorge's house.

849
01:00:28,499 --> 01:00:31,002
And I began to clearly see

850
01:00:31,753 --> 01:00:35,423
that they belong to two
very different settings in Colombia.

851
01:00:38,843 --> 01:00:42,889
One pair had been raised in Bogotá.

852
01:00:43,556 --> 01:00:48,269
At the end of the 1980s,
when the swap occurred,

853
01:00:48,353 --> 01:00:51,147
that city was a difficult, violent place.

854
01:00:54,984 --> 01:00:57,862
Bogotá was one of the flanks of the war.

855
01:01:00,698 --> 01:01:06,537
It may have been the darkest period
that the capital went through.

856
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:14,462
A city that, of course, had easy access
to education, to healthcare,

857
01:01:15,004 --> 01:01:18,716
but a city where people
were fighting hunger on a daily basis.

858
01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:26,474
And that was the case
of the twins from Bogotá,

859
01:01:26,557 --> 01:01:29,185
who lived in a family core,

860
01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:32,980
where the mother,
head of the household, did just that.

861
01:01:33,064 --> 01:01:36,943
She went to work every day
to provide for her family,

862
01:01:37,026 --> 01:01:39,696
those two boys, and an older sister.

863
01:01:41,781 --> 01:01:43,199
It was a humble home.

864
01:01:44,575 --> 01:01:45,868
No luxuries.

865
01:01:46,536 --> 01:01:49,872
But yes, I would say
there was a lot of love.

866
01:01:49,956 --> 01:01:52,458
My mother was known to say,

867
01:01:52,542 --> 01:01:56,337
"I don't need a man to raise them,
I can do it alone."

868
01:01:56,421 --> 01:02:00,466
"It's hard. I've had to work
in general services at times."

869
01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:04,262
"At times I've had to figure out
how to get you to bed

870
01:02:04,345 --> 01:02:06,806
with at least a panela water
and some bread."

871
01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:10,268
She always took care of us by herself.

872
01:02:11,018 --> 01:02:12,603
She raised three children.

873
01:02:13,813 --> 01:02:15,356
Always with the mentality,

874
01:02:16,065 --> 01:02:20,236
and her nature, saying we needed studies
so we could earn a living.

875
01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:23,489
That is true feminism.

876
01:02:23,990 --> 01:02:29,370
Just by example, she taught us
to be human, to be people.

877
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,380
If, after coming home
from cleaning houses,

878
01:02:39,881 --> 01:02:43,217
she had to go take care of cars,
or to wash clothes

879
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:48,514
in order to provide
for our basic needs, she would do it.

880
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:53,686
Though we didn't have a father with us,
she'd try to do what was best for us.

881
01:02:55,021 --> 01:02:57,982
She was always very loving.

882
01:02:58,483 --> 01:02:59,442
Very kind.

883
01:03:00,234 --> 01:03:04,238
Though my mother
had nothing of her own, she would…

884
01:03:08,159 --> 01:03:11,329
She'd do favors, without anything…

885
01:03:11,412 --> 01:03:14,207
She would do them,
expecting nothing in return.

886
01:03:14,290 --> 01:03:18,669
Many times, she obviously didn't get
anything in return, since she did it…

887
01:03:20,838 --> 01:03:21,756
Sorry.

888
01:03:31,265 --> 01:03:34,227
She was so kind.

889
01:03:34,769 --> 01:03:36,979
That's why many people loved her.

890
01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:39,982
When I met William,
I saw that he's the same way.

891
01:03:40,066 --> 01:03:42,652
I mean, he does that. He does it today.

892
01:03:43,569 --> 01:03:49,867
Then also, from all that happened,
I realized that it could be genetic.

893
01:03:49,951 --> 01:03:51,118
And how she was,

894
01:03:51,202 --> 01:03:55,248
because I didn't expect that somehow
William would be the same.

895
01:03:55,331 --> 01:03:59,710
JULY 14TH, 1952 - NOVEMBER 9TH, 2009

896
01:04:31,075 --> 01:04:38,082
PSYCHOLOGIST AND GENETICIST
SPECIALIST IN TWINS

897
01:05:16,162 --> 01:05:18,915
I don't know if one could
call it an experiment,

898
01:05:18,998 --> 01:05:25,379
seeing what impact a swap has on twins,
how they develop in the environment,

899
01:05:25,463 --> 01:05:27,840
and how they face life…

900
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:29,258
GENETICIST

901
01:05:29,342 --> 01:05:32,470
…depending on the circumstances
in which they're living

902
01:05:32,553 --> 01:05:34,263
and their genetic background.

903
01:05:34,347 --> 01:05:39,101
I can't call it an experiment because
experiments are always controlled.

904
01:05:39,185 --> 01:05:42,688
There is always a hypothesis to prove.

905
01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:45,107
Here there was an accident and then,

906
01:05:45,191 --> 01:05:49,612
well, then came the ending
of these people's lives as they knew them.

907
01:05:50,237 --> 01:05:52,490
And how each faces their own life.

908
01:06:26,565 --> 01:06:27,984
Did you guys play Tejo?

909
01:06:28,067 --> 01:06:29,735
-Yes. Not a lot.
-But it was…

910
01:06:29,819 --> 01:06:32,613
As kids,
we used to play at the sports center,

911
01:06:32,697 --> 01:06:34,949
but not on a big court like this one.

912
01:06:35,825 --> 01:06:37,827
Ours was clay, right? Remember?

913
01:06:37,910 --> 01:06:40,329
Yes, it was mostly an occasional thing.

914
01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,164
-So you don't know how to play.
-No.

915
01:06:43,958 --> 01:06:47,003
This is my siblings' favorite sport
in Santander.

916
01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:51,257
Of course, every time they play,
they're champions over there.

917
01:06:51,340 --> 01:06:55,177
-I tag along to learn, but…
-He'll mop the floor with us.

918
01:06:55,261 --> 01:06:57,388
Our luck. Let's see what you've got.

919
01:06:57,471 --> 01:06:59,849
You start then, show us what you've got.

920
01:06:59,932 --> 01:07:01,851
Let's see what you get.

921
01:07:04,020 --> 01:07:06,564
See? That was good, right? It was great.

922
01:07:06,647 --> 01:07:08,858
-Can you tell I practiced?
-Well done.

923
01:07:08,941 --> 01:07:10,943
Let's skip the guy from Santander.

924
01:07:11,694 --> 01:07:13,487
-Calm down.
-I'm from Santander.

925
01:07:13,571 --> 01:07:15,364
I'll throw like my little brother.

926
01:07:15,448 --> 01:07:17,199
-Play. Don't fight.
-Carlos started it.

927
01:07:17,283 --> 01:07:19,201
Blood is thicker than water.

928
01:07:19,285 --> 01:07:20,578
You're so bad.

929
01:07:20,661 --> 01:07:23,247
No, you're making me look bad, Carlitos.

930
01:07:23,330 --> 01:07:25,332
-Not like that.
-Give it your best shot.

931
01:07:25,416 --> 01:07:28,002
-Okay. Go, Wilber.
-He's who knows best.

932
01:07:28,085 --> 01:07:29,170
Go, roadside hawk.

933
01:07:29,253 --> 01:07:31,338
-He knows.
-Move your hand.

934
01:07:31,422 --> 01:07:33,090
-Look…
-It's a bad shot.

935
01:07:37,344 --> 01:07:39,889
-You finally did something right!
-A strike!

936
01:07:39,972 --> 01:07:42,391
Something odd about the day we first met,

937
01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,977
was the first question
we asked each other.

938
01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:48,272
What was similar,
and what was different about us?

939
01:07:48,355 --> 01:07:51,275
Obviously, aside from the physical aspect.

940
01:07:51,358 --> 01:07:53,861
For example, in the case of Wilber and me,

941
01:07:53,944 --> 01:07:57,073
we are very orderly,
obsessed with being tidy.

942
01:07:57,573 --> 01:07:59,742
We're more serious.

943
01:07:59,825 --> 01:08:01,827
We're a little more…

944
01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,913
At the time we were more flirty.

945
01:08:03,996 --> 01:08:06,874
More serious,
more thoughtful of being on time.

946
01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:24,225
Jorge always talks about the day
he bought the same clothes as William.

947
01:08:24,809 --> 01:08:29,522
I remember well when Wilber said to me,
"I'm going to copy you."

948
01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:33,234
"Let's go shopping together.
You know about it and you're cool."

949
01:08:33,818 --> 01:08:36,570
We went to a shop nearby
to buy some clothes.

950
01:08:36,654 --> 01:08:40,866
He says to me, "Some browns shoes."
And I said, "Brown."

951
01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:41,909
Making fun of him.

952
01:08:41,992 --> 01:08:46,038
Then the stylist made fun of him.
I said, "Don't do that. Only I can."

953
01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:49,041
"I have a biological right to do so.
Respect him."

954
01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:54,839
Well, in our case, we're more sociable,

955
01:08:55,339 --> 01:08:56,590
more charismatic.

956
01:08:58,968 --> 01:09:01,470
We always see things in the best way.

957
01:09:01,554 --> 01:09:06,016
Even if there are difficulties,
we approach things with positivity.

958
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:10,020
We're more expressive regarding
our feelings towards our relatives.

959
01:09:10,104 --> 01:09:12,189
We're more reserved about those things.

960
01:09:12,273 --> 01:09:16,152
In our emotions we are more private.
More reserved, unlike them.

961
01:09:54,773 --> 01:09:57,651
-There, take it, brother.
-Jorge!

962
01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:02,781
You hurt my jaw.

963
01:10:02,865 --> 01:10:07,328
-Throw it, bro. Right here. Throw it.
-Shoot it!

964
01:10:09,747 --> 01:10:11,081
Nothing but net, dude.

965
01:10:12,249 --> 01:10:13,334
Play!

966
01:10:14,168 --> 01:10:16,295
-Should I score another or no?
-Easy.

967
01:10:16,378 --> 01:10:18,047
Easy, bro. Bro!

968
01:10:19,089 --> 01:10:20,299
It's going in!

969
01:10:22,384 --> 01:10:24,345
-Damn
-Again!

970
01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:26,972
-Wilber!
-Here. No, Wilber.

971
01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:28,474
-Yeah!
-Good, Wilber!

972
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:29,934
Without lube, son.

973
01:10:30,017 --> 01:10:31,352
Genetics, son.

974
01:10:31,852 --> 01:10:34,313
A genetic link means a cultural link.

975
01:10:34,396 --> 01:10:38,359
There's a heavy genetic weight.
That's unquestionable.

976
01:10:38,442 --> 01:10:43,822
But also, the environment
in which the person develops,

977
01:10:43,906 --> 01:10:48,077
and the opportunities
that person has in life,

978
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:49,787
will also have an impact.

979
01:10:50,454 --> 01:10:52,164
Genetics have a heavy influence.

980
01:11:52,933 --> 01:11:57,021
It takes an hour
to go to school in the morning,

981
01:11:57,104 --> 01:11:59,064
and an hour to return.

982
01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:03,527
You'd come home from school
and you had your work to do,

983
01:12:03,610 --> 01:12:05,946
your chores to do at home.

984
01:12:06,447 --> 01:12:08,240
You'd have to get firewood.

985
01:12:08,324 --> 01:12:12,328
There was no proper aqueduct
or anything to bring water to the house,

986
01:12:12,411 --> 01:12:15,205
so we had to go
to the nearest tap to get water.

987
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:20,794
At night, we'd use a small candle
that we called our little lamp.

988
01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:23,797
Since there was no electric light
at our house either,

989
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:26,091
we obviously lit candles.

990
01:12:26,175 --> 01:12:29,219
From the '90s to the 2000s,

991
01:12:30,137 --> 01:12:33,807
it was always dominated by guerrillas.

992
01:12:40,272 --> 01:12:44,318
Around 2000, they started to leave

993
01:12:44,401 --> 01:12:48,322
and then the paramilitary entered.

994
01:12:51,033 --> 01:12:54,870
At that time, there was illegal farming.
There was coca.

995
01:12:55,412 --> 01:13:00,751
Our life situation forced us many times
to harvest coca and work in that field.

996
01:13:00,834 --> 01:13:03,587
We'd do it out of necessity,
not because we liked it.

997
01:13:12,721 --> 01:13:17,017
I always said to myself,
"This is not for me. I want out."

998
01:13:17,518 --> 01:13:21,313
But I had to wait 17 years,
until I turned 18,

999
01:13:21,814 --> 01:13:24,358
and I joined the army so I could get out.

1000
01:13:30,197 --> 01:13:32,533
I had a brother
who was also in the military.

1001
01:13:32,616 --> 01:13:34,576
He was older than I.

1002
01:13:35,619 --> 01:13:38,580
As fate would have it,
he lost his life there.

1003
01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:41,291
He lost his life at 22 years old.

1004
01:13:45,003 --> 01:13:48,674
For me, it was…
Well, for everybody, it was so difficult.

1005
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:55,055
At that time, William and I
could only think about revenge.

1006
01:13:55,139 --> 01:14:00,227
When we were kids, we would say,
"When I'm 18, I'm going to join the army."

1007
01:14:00,310 --> 01:14:04,106
"And then, we're going to avenge
our brother's death."

1008
01:14:04,189 --> 01:14:07,317
When William told me
that he was going to serve,

1009
01:14:07,401 --> 01:14:10,195
my first thought was
that they'd kill him too,

1010
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:11,989
they'd already killed Israel.

1011
01:14:12,698 --> 01:14:15,993
My mom suffered a lot
when William enlisted.

1012
01:14:16,076 --> 01:14:19,246
He said, "Mommy,
will you let me go into the service?"

1013
01:14:19,746 --> 01:14:21,748
I said, "I won't say yes or no."

1014
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,085
"I'm not telling you to go or not."

1015
01:14:25,586 --> 01:14:28,297
I was worried they'd kill him too.

1016
01:14:28,964 --> 01:14:31,884
"It's up to you."
He said, "Mommy, let me go."

1017
01:14:32,885 --> 01:14:35,137
"I want to go to serve."

1018
01:14:35,220 --> 01:14:37,431
"I want to have
my military service record,

1019
01:14:37,514 --> 01:14:40,309
and when I finish, I'll go to Bogotá."

1020
01:14:41,059 --> 01:14:46,482
I remember the day Wilber arrived,
after I was there for four months.

1021
01:14:46,565 --> 01:14:51,904
Seeing him in uniform and all that,
well, I felt kind of envious.

1022
01:14:51,987 --> 01:14:56,325
I went home that afternoon
and told my parents, "I'm going to serve."

1023
01:14:57,159 --> 01:14:59,828
And we went to
the southern part of Bolívar.

1024
01:14:59,912 --> 01:15:03,165
In the southern part of Bolívar, well, we…

1025
01:15:03,248 --> 01:15:04,625
We got closer.

1026
01:15:04,708 --> 01:15:09,296
We found that brotherhood, because we used
to fight a lot when we were kids.

1027
01:15:09,379 --> 01:15:10,756
But once there,

1028
01:15:10,839 --> 01:15:16,053
maybe because it was an area
where the enemy was present,

1029
01:15:16,136 --> 01:15:19,306
I felt a closer brotherhood with him.

1030
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:23,268
Eventually, I could no longer
pursue a military career

1031
01:15:23,352 --> 01:15:25,854
and had to retire from the army.

1032
01:15:29,399 --> 01:15:31,652
I arrived in Bogotá
to a godmother's house.

1033
01:15:31,735 --> 01:15:33,695
She sold arepas.

1034
01:15:33,779 --> 01:15:37,366
She taught me the recipe,
how to make them,

1035
01:15:37,449 --> 01:15:39,535
and I started working with her.

1036
01:15:39,618 --> 01:15:41,161
I set up a street stand.

1037
01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:43,747
I also sold arepas in the street,
in Bogotá.

1038
01:15:43,830 --> 01:15:46,833
Working for a family
opened other doors for me.

1039
01:15:47,751 --> 01:15:50,295
Through them,
I was able to work with meats.

1040
01:15:54,007 --> 01:15:56,218
And then, he encouraged Wilber.

1041
01:15:56,301 --> 01:15:58,887
He was leading the way for Wilber to come,

1042
01:15:58,971 --> 01:16:03,767
and anyone else that wanted to come,
but the other siblings didn't want to.

1043
01:16:05,769 --> 01:16:08,438
A person is born with a genetic makeup,

1044
01:16:08,522 --> 01:16:15,529
and that genetic makeup can make
that person more driven to do things.

1045
01:16:16,238 --> 01:16:18,574
How are you? How's it going, Don Félix?

1046
01:16:34,590 --> 01:16:38,468
And knowing the story of my twin brothers,

1047
01:16:39,052 --> 01:16:41,847
that they were both
about to be professionals,

1048
01:16:41,930 --> 01:16:44,641
I set this goal for my life, and said,

1049
01:16:45,183 --> 01:16:47,811
"I also want to become a professional."

1050
01:16:47,894 --> 01:16:48,812
My man.

1051
01:16:49,396 --> 01:16:53,609
Use what I saved at the butcher shop
and pay for my own career.

1052
01:16:56,111 --> 01:16:57,154
William, friend.

1053
01:16:57,237 --> 01:16:59,406
-My friend, how are you?
-Good!

1054
01:16:59,489 --> 01:17:06,371
He has studied, he's now a lawyer,
he's specialized, he's super driven.

1055
01:17:06,455 --> 01:17:09,207
-It's a deal then, Feiser.
-Thank you, friend.

1056
01:17:09,291 --> 01:17:11,084
-God bless.
-Blessings for everyone.

1057
01:17:11,168 --> 01:17:12,544
-Bye.
-See you later.

1058
01:17:13,295 --> 01:17:17,674
Of all my mother's children
that I grew up with,

1059
01:17:18,175 --> 01:17:22,554
I'm the only one who had a degree--
who has a degree. As of right now.

1060
01:17:27,100 --> 01:17:29,853
I got my law degree.

1061
01:17:30,646 --> 01:17:34,858
I was also given a chance to study
to specialize in constitutional law,

1062
01:17:35,359 --> 01:17:38,987
and that's also when I decided
to return here, to La Paz.

1063
01:17:39,571 --> 01:17:43,533
The town elected me as a council member,
by popular vote.

1064
01:17:43,617 --> 01:17:47,371
PRESIDENT

1065
01:17:49,873 --> 01:17:52,292
And from there, to work,

1066
01:17:52,376 --> 01:17:56,713
and be able to help many families
in La Paz who also want to get ahead,

1067
01:17:56,797 --> 01:17:57,881
as I have done.

1068
01:18:09,893 --> 01:18:13,855
Professionally, I am a public accountant,
I specialize in taxes,

1069
01:18:13,939 --> 01:18:16,024
and I have some additional studies.

1070
01:18:16,525 --> 01:18:20,946
I work as deputy finance director
for a labor union.

1071
01:18:21,029 --> 01:18:24,825
Aside from working,
I also like to play sports.

1072
01:18:24,908 --> 01:18:28,704
I practice basketball, swimming, CrossFit.

1073
01:18:35,335 --> 01:18:38,797
My job right now is… I'm a meat carver.

1074
01:18:39,464 --> 01:18:43,927
I like this job, I'm passionate about it
and I'm happy at my workplace.

1075
01:18:44,010 --> 01:18:46,847
My plan is to have my own business,
to be independent,

1076
01:18:46,930 --> 01:18:50,183
and to move forward, like I always do.
Level-headed.

1077
01:18:57,399 --> 01:19:01,153
You must have an open mind
to understand and comprehend

1078
01:19:01,236 --> 01:19:06,283
that in an instant,
something can change your life.

1079
01:19:09,077 --> 01:19:12,372
At that time,
I thought of myself as "unique."

1080
01:19:12,456 --> 01:19:15,333
That there was no one like me,
and I was the best.

1081
01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:19,337
But life showed me,
and it did it with a slap in the face.

1082
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,215
Not only did it tell me I'm not unique,

1083
01:19:22,299 --> 01:19:26,261
but it brought someone just like me,
identical to me.

1084
01:19:26,803 --> 01:19:29,431
And I learned from that, too.

1085
01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:52,996
Now that some years have passed,

1086
01:19:53,497 --> 01:19:58,126
to see their beautiful relationships,
Jorge and William, and Carlos and Wilber,

1087
01:19:59,419 --> 01:20:01,671
is really fulfilling for me.

1088
01:20:01,755 --> 01:20:06,301
I feel like what we did was okay
and I have no regrets.

1089
01:20:16,061 --> 01:20:18,480
-Thank you, Mr. Ciro!
-Thank you.

1090
01:20:18,563 --> 01:20:19,648
-Over here?
-Yes.

1091
01:20:22,776 --> 01:20:23,860
Hi, Mom!

1092
01:20:26,988 --> 01:20:27,989
Joking.

1093
01:20:28,698 --> 01:20:30,492
-Close the door.
-Thank you.

1094
01:20:30,575 --> 01:20:32,285
-Mrs. Anita!
-Carlitos, how are you?

1095
01:20:32,369 --> 01:20:34,871
William didn't want to tell you.
Scold him.

1096
01:20:35,413 --> 01:20:37,040
-Hi, Carlitos.
-Hi, William!

1097
01:20:37,123 --> 01:20:38,124
How are you, Mom?

1098
01:20:38,208 --> 01:20:40,627
-Hi, my son. How are you?
-I'm good, Mom.

1099
01:21:08,446 --> 01:21:12,909
Affectionately, this song is for
Doña Anita and Doña Luz Marina,

1100
01:21:13,702 --> 01:21:16,746
two beautiful mothers who brought
four twins into the world.

1101
01:21:17,247 --> 01:21:18,331
It goes like this.

1102
01:21:20,625 --> 01:21:24,212
I'm going to tell this story
Of so many things that happened

1103
01:21:24,296 --> 01:21:27,966
Things that are surprising
Things we won't forget

1104
01:21:28,049 --> 01:21:31,344
The story of the twins
Which has shaken Colombia

1105
01:21:33,179 --> 01:21:36,683
That December 21st
'88 was the year

1106
01:21:36,766 --> 01:21:40,312
Four boys were born
To begin the journey

1107
01:21:40,395 --> 01:21:44,024
And a hospital error
Would change their destiny

1108
01:21:44,107 --> 01:21:48,028
And a hospital error
Would change their destiny

1109
01:21:49,404 --> 01:21:53,033
Among those four boys
There is a deep love today

1110
01:21:53,116 --> 01:21:56,536
Because now they are four brothers
No one can separate them

1111
01:21:56,620 --> 01:22:00,040
And it was only two mothers
Who brought them into the world

1112
01:22:00,123 --> 01:22:04,044
And it was only two mothers
Who brought them into the world

1113
01:22:06,046 --> 01:22:09,758
Wilber and Carlos, ladies and gents
Born here in my land

1114
01:22:09,841 --> 01:22:13,428
Here in La Paz, Santander
In a beautiful village

1115
01:22:13,511 --> 01:22:17,641
Where the people are humble
Positive, no matter what…

1116
01:22:17,724 --> 01:22:20,018
Now, ten years later,

1117
01:22:20,101 --> 01:22:23,480
I ask myself every day
what is going to happen to us.

1118
01:22:23,980 --> 01:22:25,857
Always with an open mind.

1119
01:22:25,941 --> 01:22:29,736
And well, knowing that, nowadays,
I have two more brothers.

1120
01:22:30,236 --> 01:22:33,823
25 years later
One day, a friend of Jorge's

1121
01:22:33,907 --> 01:22:37,327
When she met William
Her surprise was enormous

1122
01:22:37,410 --> 01:22:40,705
And that's when the story
That everybody knows was discovered

1123
01:22:40,789 --> 01:22:45,043
And that's when the story
That everybody knows was discovered

1124
01:22:46,211 --> 01:22:49,631
Today, proudly reunited
Everyone enjoying life

1125
01:22:49,714 --> 01:22:53,176
"Very well," said their parents
"The family has grown"

1126
01:22:53,259 --> 01:22:56,972
Today they're the pride of La Paz
And that story is not forgotten

1127
01:22:57,055 --> 01:23:00,767
Today they're the pride of La Paz
And that story is not forgotten

1128
01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:31,399
Subtitle translation by: Ryan N. Becker