article: Two pairs of identical twins who were mixed up soon after they were born in 1998 and grew up apart, find each other almost 25 years later through a combination of chance events. It made headlines in July last year when The New York Times published a long and comprehensive article about it. The daily covered almost every aspect of the story, but the relationship between its main characters has kept evolving since they first met. It all started when a colleague of Bogota office worker Jorge Enrique Bernal Castro went to buy meat at William Canas Velasco's butcher's shop also in Bogota. She could not believe how similar her colleague and the butcher were. Both had the same skinny body, narrow face, small mouth and a cheeky smile. Intrigued by the similarities, she took a photo of the butcher and showed it to Jorge, who was dumbstruck. His curiosity piqued, Jorge got in touch with the butcher and the two met up. Their surprise was doubled, or quadrupled if you would like, when they realised that the person they had up until now believed to be their respective fraternal twins, Carlos Bernal Castro and Wilber Canas Velasco, bore a striking resemblance to each other. Carlos and Wilber are both big men, with robust heads, full lips and serious expressions. They little resemble Jorge and William and not just in physical terms. Jorge and William are more talkative, less formal and like to joke, while Carlos and Wilber are quieter, do not like banter, have a quicker temper and take more care of their looks. When I met them, Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones, which they said they had bought separately. William and Jorge were born on 21 December 1988 in the Materno Infantil Hospital in Bogota. Wilber and Carlos were born a day later in northern Santander province. All four were born prematurely at seven months and when Carlos fell ill, he was taken along with Wilber to the Materno Infantil Hospital to be treated. Jorge thinks that both pairs of twins were placed in the same room and that one or more of the identifying wristbands they were wearing fell off and were then placed on the wrong babies. They all left hospital on the same day with their mother none the wiser. William was taken with Wilber by Wilber and Carlos's parents to a rural area in Santander while Carlos and Jorge stayed with Jorge's mother in Bogota. Many years later, William moved to Bogota to work at a butcher's, where he was spotted by Jorge's colleague. They also had the same tendency to play with their phones when the conversation turned away from them. "We are a little bit more ego-centric, bigger flirts," said Carlos talking about the similarities between him and his identical twin Wilber and their differences to Jorge and William "I think the two of us are better dancers than them," Carlos added. Before they all met up for the first time, all four had been apprehensive and worried what
summary: The story could well be the plot of a Latin American soap opera - a Colombian one, to be more precise.