Her son reminds me so much of my son, it’s uncanny,” she adds. “We had very similar upbringings and our personalities are very similar. They believe this may have been because they were fraternal twins, rather than identical, and that their story could reveal yet another layer of the sinister study. Stranger still, unlike the boys, Allison and Michelle were put in homes with similar economic circumstances, in New York. They now know that, like the triplets, they had been separated at five months and placed in different families, all part of Neubauer’s experiment. “Up until the moment she texted me her birth certificate number, I still didn’t believe it was true.”īy the following Thursday, Allison was boarding a plane from Los Angeles to New York. “I just wanted to speak to her,” she says. Michelle messaged Kyle, saying ‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but I think I might be your mum’s twin sister’. “I go onto Facebook, find Kyle and on his friend list there she is: ‘Allison Rodnon Kanter’,” recalls Michelle. Underneath Michelle’s DNA match, there was an entry saying that ‘AK’ was care of Kyle Kanter. “It said ‘immediate family’, so it had to be a sister or half sister. They even had a cameo alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan, and opened a Manhattan steakhouse called Triplets. They did the rounds on talk shows, dressed in matching clothes and finishing each other’s sentences. Before long they had been contacted by David, whose adoptive mother had noticed the story about these ‘twins’ who looked exactly like her son.Īt the time, it turned the boys into celebrities. The two boys (who were 19 at the time) met and were interviewed by the local newspaper. The film, which opens in UK cinemas today, tells the remarkable story of David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland, triplets who were unknowingly separated at birth only to find one another by chance in 1980, when Bobby pitched up to his first day of university to find unfamiliar classmates greeting him as Eddy. Two and a half minutes later, she was sat bolt upright, her heart pounding. A movie trailer caught her eye - Three Identical Strangers - and she began watching. She took her phone from the bedside table, sleepily scrolling through Facebook, mustering the energy to get up and face a busy day at the school where she worked. On June 26 2018, Michelle Mordkoff’s alarm went off at 6am as usual.
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