The Sunday Read: 'The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá'

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🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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One magazine writer reflects on life’s unpredictability and shares her story of a hospital error that scrambled two pairs of Colombian identical twins. This is the story of how the four brothers found one another — and of what happened next. This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

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0:00.0	My name is Susan Dominus and I'm a staff writer at the New York Times magazine.
0:09.8	And like everyone else, I am working from home.
0:13.0	And so as I've been sitting here, I've been thinking a little bit about how strange things
0:18.0	are right now and how your life can just change so quickly overnight.
0:23.0	I mean, I think we all feel that everything is changing so much day to day.
0:28.0	And all of that was actually maybe think a little bit about a piece that I wrote a couple
0:32.4	of years ago now, about two sets of brothers.
0:39.0	So one evening, about five years ago in Bogota, Colombia, a young man named William went to
0:45.0	a town square to meet a young man named Jorge who looked just like him.
0:51.5	No, no, no, don't go.
0:54.4	They had never met.
0:57.6	They were identical twins.
1:00.0	And their story is really a story of chance and the way that you cannot predict what's
1:15.5	going to happen next and you can't assume that the life that you had is anything like
1:20.8	the one that you're going to have going forward.
1:23.9	Sorry guys, give me a second.
1:26.3	Not a dry cough.
1:28.7	So anyway, that's just me.
1:31.4	Maybe you'll listen to this story, which is going to be read by Julia Whalen and get
1:35.2	something totally different from it.
1:37.4	I certainly hope you enjoy it.
1:48.0	Part one, the beginning.
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