At age 6, she promised Mum she'd find her brother. She didn't know he was already her 'work bestie'
Andrea Urmston and Dave Green's hit it off from the very beginning
From the young age of 6, Andrea Urmston promised her mother she would find her adopted sibling one day. Little did she know it was him when they met at Manchester Airport while working. Dave Green was a supervisor managing the bus station at the airport, and Urmston serviced the vending machines. From the very first meet-up in 2005, the pair hit it off. After two years, he divulged that his name was Stuart Proudlove before he was adopted, BBC News reported. Green's confession changed their lives. The video was shared on July 24, 2026, and it received 169,738 views, 4,300 likes, and 414 comments.
That one phone call
Susan had "Stuart" when she was just 15 years old. At the time, she had two choices: let her mother raise him as her own or give him up for adoption. Green and his mother would have to pretend to be siblings if she chose the former, which was why she chose the latter. 39 years later, Green and Urmston met at work and became great friends. They had always felt like they were "brother and sister," until one phone call confirmed it.
When Green's foster child had to go back to foster care, he was devastated. He called Urmston and told her the reason why it affected him so much was that he was an adoptee. He also told her his real name. "I kind of froze and didn't speak for a minute... it's not a very popular name, and it had to be him. Other than family, I had never heard that surname anywhere else," she told the outlet when she realized they shared the same name.
Reunited after 39 years
After a quick phone call to her mother, the birth date confirmed that Green was Stuart Proudlove. Urmston knew what she had to do next. She picked up Green and took him to their mother's house. On the way, Green realized he had crossed the very same road and his mother's house several times during his years as a driver. He was surprised that his biological family had been so close to him all this time, and he did not have a single clue.
When the trio met, "There were lots of tears. Then we just all hugged. I couldn't believe that I'd got my brother and my mum together. It was amazing." Urmston finally fulfilled the promise she made her mother. "I promised her that I would find him for her one day. She had wanted that since being as young as I can remember. So yeah, I gave her that. I promised her that."
Sibling bonds
A study by the NAIC revealed that the bond between siblings is one of the longest-lasting relationships, most of the time lasting longer than parent-child relationships. People usually think the latter moulded a person's behavior, but the study stated, "there is a growing awareness that the interplay between siblings also exerts a powerful life-long force." Additionally, adopted adults tend to look for their "remembered biological siblings" more than their birth parents.
Green admitted that he never thought to look for his mother, but Urmston had been looking for her brother from a young age. An Adoptive Families survey found that 71% of adopted children know about their birth siblings, while 14% were not sure. Green did not know about Urmston, but research suggested that adopted siblings should be informed of their birth siblings from an early age. It could help maintain sibling relationships and strengthen their understanding of their own family history and identity.
They won the lottery
People rejoiced that the two siblings finally reunited after years of separation. @cya2163 commented, "I don't know, people don't believe in miracles, but I think their story is miraculous. I wish them many, many years of love and happy association. May God bless them always and in all ways." @kasikwagoma6740 wrote, "I am sobbing like crazy. Blood can never lie, my God almighty, it is so thick."
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