Brother. All four came to use the word, even Jorge and Wilber.
They shared an email address and made decisions as four. Their families said nobody had lost a son or a brother; they had gained one.
Psychologists Nancy Segal and Yesika Montoya studied the four men for a book, Accidental Brothers. It was the first known case of two sets of identical twins split up as babies and reunited as adults.
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Even their medical-history forms matched up. Jorge and William handed theirs in blank. Carlos and Wilber filled theirs with aches and ailments.
For years, people had teased the family in Bogotá that their boys didn't look like twins. They were twins all along. Just not with each other.
