she said, you see this? we kind of exchanged newspapers. it had born long irish jewish hospital, july 12th, 1961, and it was louise wise adoption agency. i mean, i always knew growing up that i was adopted. my parents were always open about it. but it said eddy galland of new hyde park, long island. robert shafran of scarsdale, new york. son of prominent scarsdale physician, mort shafran. and my first thought i said he s got the wealthy family. this s.o.b. is probably driving a benz, he got a doctor. and i remember being with david in the kitchen. we were like really nervous. i mean, we were jumping around. we were 19 years old. this was surreal. david picked up the phone and he called information. and he reached eddy s mom. and i said, hi, is eddy home? she says, no, who s calling, please. and i thought, okay, now i got to go into this whole thing on the phone. and i said, well, my name is david kellman and i was born
david s father richard was larger than life. if you can imagine this guy, he was a big guy with a big cigar hanging out of his mouth. we referred to him as bubala. he was bubala. if you know yiddish, bubala, it s like love, it s hugging and it s kissing. we spent more time at david s house than any place else. bubala celebrated us like no other person. he said, i have two more sons. when the boys found each other, it just sort of happened then and there. here s this wonderful story, and that s it. nobody questioned what was going on except the parents, of
we were all young and starting our marriages and careers. hi, welcome to triplets! david kellman, edward galland, and robert shafran are identical triplets. now they run a restaurant called, what else? you guessed it, triplets. welcome, hello and welcome. welcome. we had a lot of people coming for us. they came to see the triplets. they wanted to be waited on by one of the triplets. we served vodka frozen blocks of ice, and we d get the whole room up and dancing. it was like this big party. it was this big bar mitzvah. triplets become wildly successful, owning a restaurant in the soho district of new york city. we did over a million dollars the first year.
watched three separate lives becoming one. the way i put it was, i look more like eddy than i did david, and more like david than i did eddy, and more like either of them like they did each other. does that make sense? and then we started comparing notes. what do 19-year-olds compare? booze, cigarettes, food, women, music, cars. i had just bought a brand-new mercury capri, which i loved. bobby had this maroon, beat-up, old volvo with cracked leather seats. and i m like, son of prominent scarsdale physician, huh? i think it was eddy who said right at the beginning, i don t
eddy was in the hospital for i think it was three weeks. and then he came back to work at the restaurant. i wasn t there. david was with him all the time. i think maybe he could give you better detail about it. i was running the kitchen. eddy wasn t in. i was running the kitchen, he was running the front of the house. that s the way it worked. and i didn t know where he was. and he lived across the street. so david called me from the restaurant and he asked me to look out the window to see if eddy s car was in the driveway. because if it were in the driveway, we knew that he was home.