Dave Green, a 60-year-old man adopted as a baby, discovered his birth family after realizing he had been working with his sister for two years. Green, a bus station supervisor at Manchester Airport, regularly encountered Andrea Urmston, who filled vending machines at the station. The pair shared an interest in motorbikes and had been friends for two years before a conversation about fostering in 2007 led Green to reveal his adoption.
Discovery of sibling bond
Urmston, 53, told Green that her brother had been put up for adoption. As they discussed details, they realized they had the same mother. Green told the BBC: “People don’t meet like that, it’s not what happens in everyday life, but ours are not everyday lives any more.”
When Green met his mother, who gave birth to him at age 15, he realized he had regularly driven past her home in Altrincham, Trafford, as a bus driver.
Emotional reunion
Urmston described the first meeting between her brother and their mother as “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 discovered they share similar tastes, including taking their tea the same way and a love of “tomato sauce butties.” Green added: “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.”
