The story could well be the plot of a Latin American soap opera - a Colombian one, to be more precise.
Two pairs of identical twins who were mixed up soon after they were born in 1988 and grew up apart, find each other 25 years later through a combination of chance events.he story could well be the plot of a Latin American soap opera - a Colombian one, to be more precise.
Two pairs of identical twins who were mixed up soon after they were born in 1988 and grew up apart, find each other 25 years later through a combination of chance events.
Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones, which they said they had bought separately.
William and Jorge were born on 21 December 1988 in the Materno Infantil Hospital in Bogota. Wilber and Carlos were born a day later in northern Santander province.
All four were born prematurely at seven months and when Carlos fell ill, he was taken along with Wilber to the Materno Infantil Hospital to be treated.
Jorge thinks that both pairs of twins were placed in the same room and that one or more of the identifying wristbands they were wearing fell off and were then placed on the wrong babies.
They all left hospital on the same day with their mother none the wiser.
William was taken with Wilber by Wilber and Carlos's parents to a rural area in Santander while Carlos and Jorge stayed with Jorge's mother in Bogota.
Many years later, William moved to Bogota to work at a butcher's, where he was spotted by Jorge's colleague.
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They also had the same tendency to play with their phones when the conversation turned away from them.
"We are a little bit more ego-centric, bigger flirts," said Carlos talking about the similarities between him and his identical twin Wilber and their differences to Jorge and William
"I think the two of us are better dancers than them," Carlos added.
Before they all met up for the first time, all four had been apprehensive and worried what the others may be like.
"I was scared, because there were two people who looked exactly like my brother and me, but at the same time, I didn't know who they were," Jorge told me.
"My biggest fear was that they could be bad people."
But as soon as they met, their fears started to dissolve and the wariness gave way to words, jokes and questions.
