A man adopted as a baby has been reunited with his birth family after discovering he had unknowingly been working with his long-lost sister for two years.
Dave Green, 60, was a bus station supervisor at Manchester Airport when he realised Andrea Urmston, 53, who regularly serviced vending machines there, was a sibling, the BBC reported.
The two had developed a friendship over two years, bonding over a shared interest in motorbikes before a conversation about fostering in 2007, when Mr Green disclosed he had been adopted.
Ms Urmston mentioned her brother had been put up for adoption, and as they discussed further details, they soon realised they shared the same mother.
“People don’t meet like that, it’s not what happens in everyday life, but ours are not everyday lives any more,” Mr Green told the BBC.
When Mr Green went to meet his mother, who gave birth to him when she was 15, he realised he had driven past her home in Altrincham, Trafford, regularly as a bus driver.
Ms Urmston said the first meeting between her brother and their mother was “amazing”.
She said: “It was just something she had wanted so much and she just couldn’t believe it.
“It was a surreal moment, there was lots of tears and then we all just hugged. I couldn’t believe that I’d got my brother and my mum together.”
The siblings have found that despite growing up apart they share similar tastes – including taking their tea the same way and having a love of “tomato sauce butties”.
Mr Green said: “I have always thought it’s not what you have in your life it’s who you have in your life.
“Somebody or something gave me the thumbs up that day and things will never be the same again, things haven’t been the same for 20 years and they’re not going to be ever again because I’ve got the one thing in my life that I need to make it special.”
