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Wednesday 27 December 2017
Lifelong best friends discover they’re actually brothers
HONOLULU (AP) — Two dia, Honolulu news station In this Dec. 23, 2017 image, Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane are interviewed in Honolulu.
Hawaii men who grew up KHON-TV reported . The two Hawaii men grew up as best friends and recently learned that they’re actually brothers.
as best friends recently “So then we started dig-
learned that they’re actu- ging into all the matches (KHON via AP)
ally brothers and revealed he started getting,” said his
the surprise to family and daughter, Cindy Macfar- night. “It was an over- long it’s going to take for gether. “This is the best
friends over the holidays. lane-Flores. whelming experience, it’s me to get over this feeling.” Christmas present I could
Alan Robinson and Walter A top match — someone still overwhelming,” Robin- They have plans to travel ever imagine having,” Rob-
Macfarlane have been with identical X chromo- son said. “I don’t know how and enjoy retirement to- inson said.q
friends for 60 years. Born in somes — had the user-
Hawaii 15 months apart, name Robi737. Robison’s
they met in the sixth grade nickname was Robi and he
and played football to- flew 737s for Aloha Airlines,
gether at a Honolulu prep Macfarlane-Flores said.
school. It turned out Robinson used
Macfarlane never knew his the same website to find
father, and Robinson was answers about his fam-
adopted. Separately, they ily. They later learned they
sought answers about their have the same birth moth-
ancestry. er.
Macfarlane turned to “It was a shock,” Macfar-
family history and DNA- lane said.
matching websites after They revealed the relation-
unsuccessful searches on ship to friends and fam-
the internet and social me- ily during a party Saturday
Utah deputy broke through frozen pond to pull out boy
NEW HARMONY, Utah (AP) The boy was chasing his St. George, according to enough to dive in and grab made public.
— A sheriff’s deputy in dog Monday evening Washington County sher- the boy about 25 feet from The deputy was treated for
southern Utah punched when another child saw iff’s Lt. David Crouse. the shoreline, Crouse said. cuts, bruises and symptoms
through a frozen pond on him fall through the ice Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Thomp- The boy was airlifted to a of hypothermia and was re-
Christmas Day to pull out a on a pond in the town of son broke a path through hospital in St. George, and leased from Dixie Regional
drowning 8-year-old boy. New Harmony, north of the ice until he was close his condition has not been Medical Center.q
