The Happy Pod: My best friend turned out to be my brother
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This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
I'm Holly Gibbs, and in this edition, we meet Dave and Andrea. She made a promise to her mum when she was six that she'd find me. And I remember our mum looking over my shoulder as she was hugging me through the tears, saying, you kept your promise. Out of anybody that I know, I would have chose you to be my brother. They became friends at work, only to find out they are actually brother and sister. Also on this podcast, the 82-year-old woman who challenged the law to bring happy hour to her assisted living facility. I was very happy, excited that I had a part in it. And I hope that I can motivate others, especially seniors, Plus, why walking could be the secret to the happiness of Dutch children.
They run up and down the routes. They sing songs, marching songs, scouting songs. The children are always fantastic.
And next time you're walking on the beach this summer and you see a bottle, you know, don't walk past it, but pick it up because you never know where that bottle might bring you. Because in my case, it even got me to the Pope.
One of our listeners tells us about his adventures challenging policymakers on plastic pollution from his surfboard. Dave and Andrea met by chance when they both worked in the north of England. They became friends and bonded over their similarities. Then one day, Andrea revealed that she'd been looking for her long-lost brother for 30 years, and the mystery was soon solved. The BBC's Rowan Bridge has been to meet them. That'll never happen. So what are the chances of anything like that being able to happen? He kind of wasn't just a normal person that I'd chat to in the day. There was just something there. We couldn't put our finger on it, what it was. People don't meet like that. It's not what happens in everyday lives.
But ours are not everyday lives anymore.
Let me introduce Dave Green. He used to drive buses.
The last time I drove a bus was 1999. I used to have a motto, it's just nice to be nice. As a supervisor at Manchester Airport bus station, he met Andrea Emston. I've come to fill the vending machines and clean the vending machines.
And that's how you got introduced to Dave?
Yes, we've... The two struck up a friendship, and that's where this story begins. We were just two strangers, and the more discussions we had, the more we realised we had in common. I like motorbikes, she liked motorbikes, she had a bike when she was a youngster. We were having a chit-chat, and I remember putting my arm round her, and she said, ''We're just like brother, sister, me and you, aren't we?'' I said, ''Yeah, we look quite good together, don't we?'' She said, ''We could be brother, sister, me and you.'' I'd ask him a question, he'd start talking and I'd finish his sentence for him. Which, again, was quite uncanny, really. But it was a fateful phone call in 2007 that was going to change everything.
Me and my ex-partner, we fostered. This particular day, I was quite distraught because the foster child had to be returned into care. I called her and said, I'm really down today because the foster child's got to go back into care and I feel like I've really let him down because I'm adopted. And I was like, I can't believe you've never told me this in two years. I said, well, my brother was adopted.
Who are Dave and Andrea and how did they discover they were siblings?
His name was Stuart. To which I replied, OK, my name was Stuart when I was adopted. Stuart Proudlove. And I went, that was his name, Stuart Proudlove. She phoned me back a few minutes later and said, I've spoke to my mum and we were born in Withenshaw, a hospital, on the 24th of March 1966. I said I was. We both cried at this point because we knew what was coming.
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