Three Identical Strangers (2018)

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Three Identical Strangers (2018)

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What would you do if, at the age of 19, you discovered you had an identical twin?

What if you discovered you were actually an identical triplets?

In the early 1980s, Bobby Shafran left home for college. When he arrived on campus, he was confused by the warm welcome he received, and also the fact that everybody kept calling him "Eddy." Later that day, a mutual friend coordinated a meeting between the two young men, and that's how Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland learned that they were identical twins, separated at birth. Both men shared the same birthday, and had been adopted through the same adoption agency.

The story was quite a sensation. Pictures of the two men looking nearly identical were plastered in magazines and on newspapers. That's how David Kellman heard about the twins. After seeing their pictures and realizing that he looked just like them, David picked up the phone, called Eddy's house, and announced that Eddy and Bobby weren't twins -- the three of them were triplets.

The three men were immediate media starlings, appearing on Donahue and Today and a million other programs. The triplets were the talk of the town, becoming regulars on the New York City club scene. The three of them got an apartment and moved in together. Eventually they opened a restaurant together, called Triplets.

When the party ended, jubilation turned to curiosity and anger. Why would an adoption agency knowingly split up newborn triplets, keep them within a hundred mile radius of one another, and never tell the families that their adopted children had identical siblings?

This is where Three Identical Strangers turns a little dark. Spoilers ahead.

Eddy, David, and Bobby were not the only identical siblings split by the agency. There were "at least eight" sets of siblings, although nobody seems to have access to the exact information. As unbelievable as it sounds, the triplets (and all the other sets of twins) were separated at birth as part of a scientific experiment to solve the age old question of nature vs. nurture.

Eddy, David, and Bobby were all placed in specific homes -- ones with different income levels and parents with different parenting styles. How did they know the parenting styles? Because all three families had also adopted a girl two years prior. The triplets thought it was an amazing coincidence that each of them had an adopted sister two years older than they were; now, they knew why. Multiple times a year, psychologists working with the adoption agency (under the guise of keeping up on the children) visited the triplets to perform cognitive tests and film them in action. One of the researchers interviewed later in the film chuckles when he says, "Yeah, it was hard not telling those kids that I had just left another house with a kid that looked just like them!"

In the case of Eddy, David, and Bobby, the experiment had disastrous results. Although the men had similar looks and mannerisms, they quickly learned that they were, for all intents and purposes, strangers. A business venture between the three went sour, and later, things got worse.

Due to fear of backlash by the general public, the doctor who performed the experiment chose not to publish the results. His findings are stored at Yale and will be locked up until 2066. Because of this, no one knows how many other sets of twins or triplets were a part of this study, or who they are.

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Wow, that's some shit man.
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He does all this research and then because of the FEAR of backlash he hides it? What a pussy! Maybe this is one of those experiments where he learned more about himself than who he experimented on.
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Shortly before releasing the data, the doctor's own twin appeared out of nowhere and convinced him not to release it.

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Judging by that video I think it's OK to take the thread into a weird place now?

We had a few sets of twins in my graduating class of high school. One set of gals were drop-dead gorgeous and I once had a conversation with the two of them for about two minutes once. It was right at that age where you start to get an awareness of what you're, ahem INTO, narmean. Anyway, that was probably #1 on a type of list we haven't gone into here at Jolt Country before.

When I was doing a lot of dating before I met my wife I made sure that came up in the first five minutes of conversation. "How fertile was your mom? Ha ha! Any chance there's a twin wandering around out there? Ha ha! I'll tell you what I make, just answer my question first! Ha ha!"
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I was part of a small committee that helped plan our high school's ten year reunion. Two of the dudes I tried to track down were twins we graduated with -- I'll call them Billy and Willy. I didn't know them well; all I knew is that they liked to fight, and if you picked a fight with one of them, you were picking a fight with both of them. I have a specific memory of one of the biggest kids in our school starting a fight with one of them and the next thing you know the guy was screaming in the cafeteria with Billy punching him in the gut and Willy hanging onto his back.

Anyway, I managed to track them down. Billy was serving 20 years for killing a fellow inmate in county, and recently got 30 years after attempting to kidnap someone and getting shot by the police. Willy is out on probation and attempts to friend me on Facebook from time to time.

Billy:
CRF# Court Offense Conviction Date Term Term Code Reception Date Discharged Date
2014-262 COMANCHE COUNTY COURT KIDNAPPING 10/2/2015 7 Y 6 M Probation 10/2/2015 Active
2014-262 COMANCHE COUNTY COURT KIDNAPPING 10/2/2015 12 Y 6 M Incarceration 12/3/2015 Active
2014-262 COMANCHE COUNTY COURT CON/FELONS PROHIB/CARRY FIREARMS 10/2/2015 10 Y Incarceration 12/3/2015 Active
2014-262 COMANCHE COUNTY COURT GRAND LARCENY 10/2/2015 2 Y Incarceration 12/3/2015 2/3/2016
95-75 COMANCHE COUNTY COURT MANSLAUGHTER FIRST DEGREE - INTOX. DR. 6/16/1995 20 Y Incarceration 6/29/1995 1/28/2013

Willy:
CRF# Court Offense Conviction Date Term Term Code Reception Date Discharged Date
2008-175 CADDO COUNTY COURT BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE 4/9/2009 2 Y Probation 4/9/2009 4/8/2014
CF-2008-175 CADDO COUNTY COURT BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE 4 Y 5 M 22 D P&PSUS 4/9/2009 9/30/2011
2008-175 CADDO COUNTY COURT BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE 4/9/2009 3 Y Incarceration 5/14/2009 12/27/2010
2004-13 COTTON COUNTY COURT POSS OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 6/4/2004 3 Y Probation 6/4/2004 6/3/2009
2004-13 COTTON COUNTY COURT POSS OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 3 Y P&PSUS 2/7/2006 2/19/2008
2004-13 COTTON COUNTY COURT POSS OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 6/4/2004 2 Y Incarceration 6/22/2004 2/7/2006
97-2495 OKLAHOMA COUNTY COURT USE OF VEHICLE IN DISCHARGE OF WEAPON 11/30/2000 3 Y Probation 11/30/2000 11/29/2004
97-2495 OKLAHOMA COUNTY COURT DISCHARGING FIREARMS IN PUBLIC PLACE 4 Y P&PSUS 9/30/1997 10/11/2001
1997-2495 OKLAHOMA COUNTY COURT ASSAULT &/OR BATTERY W/DEADLY WEAPON 9/30/1997 4 Y Probation 9/30/1997 9/29/2001
97-2495 OKLAHOMA COUNTY COURT USE OF VEHICLE IN DISCHARGE OF WEAPON 11/30/2000 1 Y Incarceration 1/3/2001 4/29/2001
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Well you just forever named these two!



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