IT was a very special and emotional day for Charles Russell, a member of the Landsborough Seventh-Day Adventist, when he recently visited Cairns .He met his brother Brian, who he had never seen before, for the first time.
Brian had been adopted just after birth over 70 years ago by a family who had emigrated from Malta. From six he was placed into several orphanages in NSW, until he left to work at 14, before settling in WA. A DNA test this year revealed Charles and Brian were close siblings.
It was an extraordinary time catching up after all these years. Brian also met his maternal mother and other siblings for the first time while he was in Cairns.
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