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The world can seem like such a big place when you are searching for someone missing in your life, but then again sometimes that person turns out to be right before you.

Stephen Goosney, 29, and Tommy Larkin, 30, were born a year and a half apart. They were both adopted and began life knowing they were missing vital pieces of their personal history.

The two men told the Corner Brook Western Star they began the process of finding out who they were several years ago, both citing medical history as their primary reason behind the search.

They soon uncovered their past — just across the street from one another.

The pair discovered from an adoption agency that they had been within shouting distance for seven months.

“It was a good feeling, knowing there was actually someone looking for me too,” Mr. Goosney said in an interview with the newspaper.

There was hope they would be living close together, but an understanding that, even if they were adopted by Newfoundland and Labrador families, there is a good chance they could be far apart.

However, it turned out they have spent the past seven months living almost directly across the street from each other on Wheeler’s Road in Corner Brook.

In addition, for more than two years, they have lived on the same street. Mr. Larkin moved to a different residence seven months ago.

They say their reunion was a simple matter to arrange.

Mr. Larkin just had to look out his living room window, wait for his brother to come home, make the call, and invite him over.

“She gave me his name and asked me four or five times if I knew him,” Mr. Larkin said, referring to the person at the adoption agency who assisted the search.

“I said I didn’t, and she kept asking me, if I was sure I haven’t met him.”

“She told me, if I got the paper signed and back to her right away, she was sure she could have us meeting by the end of the week. I was like, ‘OK, well he is in Newfoundland.“’

Then, as he was pacing the living room, talking on the phone, he was given the address.

“I said, ‘No … I am looking at the house right now,“’ he said.

Unfortunately, Mr. Goosney was out of town, but the next day, March 25, the brothers finally met.

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Article courtesy theglobeandmail.com