![]() I have spoken to her through Skype so I know that she is very emotional as well and it hurts me that she is sad about this situation and it's very hard for her.Twins living in different countries offer opportunities to explore associations between observed differences and experiential effects. Said Ms Falk: "Of course I am excited to meet my family, especially my biological mother. ![]() The quartet will be heading to Semarang this summer with their families for about two weeks to reconnect with their biological family.Īnd although there is no anger or resentment, the sisters still have "mixed feelings". we have a great time whenever we meet so hopefully we can develop a greater relationship." Said Ms Backlund: "The Netherlands is about a half-day drive (from Sweden) so I hope we can meet more often. Tim is married to a Dutch woman and they have a three-year-old daughter, while Mark is single. When they are not physically in the same place, the foursome keep in touch via text message and Skype almost daily. Since then, the siblings have met up once more, when the brothers went to Sweden for the second time to be a part of Ms Backlund's son's baptism. ![]() "We didn't have much time to prepare ourselves, but when I saw them, it was the same feeling as when I had met Emelie. Recalled Ms Backlund of their tearful first meeting - captured on Separated At Birth - where they took turns to embrace each other: "It was amazing when we found out there were two of them. The men, who were both living in the Netherlands and work in IT, immediately flew to Sweden. Within a week of their original Facebook post, the sisters had found both their brothers. Shortly after, they received another message, from a man named Mark who claimed to be Hero. He had the correct birth date and place of birth and even mentioned the names of their oldest brother and sister, which had not been made public. The more messages they got, however, the more confusing the search became.Įventually, a man named Tim messaged them that he was Heru. Within 24 hours, their post received more than 6,000 shares and 460,000 views and messages started pouring in from people claiming to be or to know Heru. The sisters uploaded a photo of themselves to Facebook on Aug 15 last year with the hashtag #Hunt4Heru. They chose to do it through social media. Ms Falk, who has two daughters, aged two and six months with her self-employed Swedish husband, said: "They were also a pair of twins, but I was told one of them died while the other one was really sick and (our parents) couldn't take care of him because they didn't have a lot of money.".Īrmed with just the birth certificates of their brother Heru and the presumed dead HeroSeriawan, and a rumour that Heru had been adopted in the Netherlands, and knowing only the boys' year of birth (1979), the sisters began their quest to find him. She was told that somewhere in the world, the sisters had an older brother who had been adopted a few years before them. While Ms Backlund was there, another discovery awaited. There are a lot of people in this family," she said, adding that she found out that her biological mother had 15 children, 11 of whom were in Indonesia. "Nothing could prepare me for (going back) to Indonesia. Ms Backlund, who is married to a Swedish school principal with whom she has two sons, aged five and two, visited Semarang in 2013. Falk told The New Paper over the phone from Sweden: "We decided to do the show because we thought maybe we could get some help in finding (him).
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