"The first thing that I let them know was that I never gave up on them and they were always in my heart. "I couldn't stop crying, just everything went through my mind," said Gaspar. There were tears for both the boys and their dad. "It's just crazy to think he's been looking for us for about 21 years now." "We had a three-way phone call with him and it was very emotional," said Ramando Gaudette. They immediately began trying to contact their biological father and by Wednesday, they were speaking to him for the first time. Gaudette's brother, Robert Gaudette, who was working out of town at the time, soon learned the news as well. "I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, that's my dad. He looks awesome.'" He thought the goatee-sporting, Harley Davidson jacket-wearing man looked pretty cool. He realized he bore a resemblance to the man in the photo that was included in the post. The Facebook post Gaspar and his partner, Dana Sinclair, wrote was shared more than 27,000 times. "I was kind of skeptical at first and then the more I read it and talked to my mom about it, she was like, 'Yeah, this is your actual dad.' It was so surreal, it was very overwhelming." "I'm like, 'Ok this isn't real, right?'" he said. "I was about to head out to work and then my mom gets a phone call from one of her older friends, 'Hey, there's this Facebook post going around, apparently there's this guy looking for his twins and my mom is like, 'Wait, what?' " said Gaudette. The post was quickly shared on Edmonton Facebook pages and by Tuesday morning, it reached 21-year-old Ramando Gaudette, who was getting ready for his day in the south Edmonton home he shares with his adoptive parents. "I had no idea it was going to go this far, which is beautiful. I'm lost for words to be honest," said Gaspar. Within three days, the post had been shared more than 27,000 times. and the next day it was up to 6,000 ," said Gaspar. "It took like five minutes to put up that post . What happened over the next 48 hours left the couple in shock. He also added a picture of himself to the post. The post included the few details Gaspar knew about the boys, which was their names and not much else. 13, just days before he found his long-lost sons. Gaspar and his partner, Dana Sinclair, had a baby on Friday, Oct. They wrote: "Hi my name is Roberto Gaspar I am looking to find my twin boys They were born at Grey Nuns hospital in Edmonton Alberta. "She goes 'Yeah, it will help.' I told her what to say and she put the post up." "And I was like, 'You think it's going to help?' " said Gaspar. Sinclair asked him if he wanted her to put a post on Facebook indicating he was looking for the boys. "I was laying in bed and I looked at my girlfriend and said, 'You know, I really got to find a way to find my boys. I'm going crazy about these boys, I can't find them.'" That weighed heavily on Gaspar in the days after his latest child, Persayus, was welcomed into the world. But the whereabouts of the boys remained a mystery. Still, he was able to find Angelica a short time later and they've grown close. Gaspar said the children didn't have his last name and he was powerless to do anything about the adoptions.Īccording to Gaspar, their biological mother had a troubled life and didn't share any information with him about the adoptions, even when he spoke to her just before she died last year. While the boys were kept together, their sister was adopted by another family. He later discovered that his daughter, Angelica, had also been adopted. Gaspar was still a teenager when he found out his ex-girlfriend had put the twins up for adoption. The newborn made him think of his twin boys, Robert and Ramando. He hadn't seen them since they were six months old, more than 20 years ago. When Roberto Gaspar of Hodgson, Man., last saw his boys 20 years ago, they were babies.
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