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FakeNoose

(32,351 posts)
Sat May 27, 2023, 10:40 PM May 2023

Brother finds long-lost sibling while visiting Horseshoe Curve in Altoona



(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette link) https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2023/05/27/horseshoe-curve-altoona-daniel-moringiello-brothers-jim-adams-adopted/stories/202305280067

ALTOONA, Pa. — Some may call it fate, some luck, others even coincidence. But when Daniel Moringiello found his blood brother after roughly 60 years of wondering and searching, he knew exactly what it was: divine intervention.

Born James Joseph Morrison, Mr. Moringiello was adopted from the now-closed Angel Guardian Home in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1952 at just 7 months old. He was brought into a New York Italian home by, according to Mr. Moringiello, some of the “greatest parents you could ask for.” They were up front with Mr. Moringiello from the beginning about him being adopted, and he always wondered what happened with his birth parents to make them decide to give him up.

“I was content with the parents I had,” Mr. Moringiello said, but “it was always there in the back of your mind: Who were they?”

Mr. Moringiello and his wife, Cynthia, lived in New York until he retired in 2005. The couple decided to move to Blair County — namely Hollidaysburg — due to their love for the Horseshoe Curve. That is a local tourist attraction, a curving railroad track build to get trains over the Allegheny Mountains.


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Remarkable story! I don't want to spoil it, so please take a few minutes to read this.

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Brother finds long-lost sibling while visiting Horseshoe Curve in Altoona (Original Post) FakeNoose May 2023 OP
Wow! Worth the read. MLAA May 2023 #1
So happy for them after all this time. Life is beautiful for these brothers Deuxcents May 2023 #2
What a story! The best part is that they had known each other for years so there was none of the LoisB May 2023 #3
That really is an amazing story. And it's so interesting that the two brothers found each other pnwmom May 2023 #4

LoisB

(7,074 posts)
3. What a story! The best part is that they had known each other for years so there was none of the
Sun May 28, 2023, 12:01 AM
May 2023

awkwardness of a first meeting of "lost" siblings.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
4. That really is an amazing story. And it's so interesting that the two brothers found each other
Sun May 28, 2023, 12:32 AM
May 2023

because they they both loved the Horseshoe Curve!

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