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Two teens who followed each other on social media because they had the same nickname and looked alike were left stunned after discovering they were long-lost biological brothers. Kali’i Mafi, 19, from Spanish Fork, Utah, and Keawe Sofoifa, 17, from Lubbock, Texas, grew up with their adoptive families but with one recurring experience. Both boys' unique-sounding Polynesian names, given to them by their birth father, caused difficulty amongst their school friends – so both were given the same nickname: Kiwi. In early 2025, Kali'i went to type his name into Instagram, when he came across another profile with Kiwi in the title – and couldn’t believe how much the teen looked just like him. Intrigued, Kali'i direct messaged Keawe, noting how much they looked alike, but nothing more came of the connection for more than a year and a half, with the pair simply following each other's profiles. Then, on August 9, Kali'i replied to one of Keawe's stories, sparking a conversation between Keawe and his adoptive mom, Sandy Sofoifa, about how he and the teen in the other Kiwi profile looked alike. Sandy told Keawe she knew he had a brother and was sure that was him, and so she encouraged her son to reply with a difficult question, "Were you adopted?"
Transcript
00:00What the heck?
00:01Every single day, you're like, oh, I wonder if I had a twin.
00:04Oh!
00:06What the heck?
00:07I literally had that happen to me,
00:10and it's just an insane feeling.
00:11I seriously have had an opportunity of a lifetime.
00:15There is not a lot of people that can relate to my story.
00:18I've always known, growing up,
00:19that I was adopted in the first place,
00:21but my parents never really got into detail with it.
00:25All I knew was that I needed to be given up
00:28because I didn't live in the best circumstances,
00:31and that it would be better for me to go somewhere else
00:34and be in better hands.
00:35I was adopted from birth.
00:37I grew up with the family I have now,
00:39and, I mean, there really hasn't been any, like,
00:43difference or made me feel any different for being adopted.
00:47In fourth grade, me and my friends sat in a circle,
00:50and we all thought about making nicknames for each other.
00:52I made up the nickname Kiwi.
00:54When I got to middle school,
00:55I started to go by my middle name.
00:57And people couldn't really say it right.
01:00My friend came up to me, and he's like,
01:02we're going to go with Kiwi.
01:03One day, I was going to search my name up on Instagram.
01:07My Instagram handle is Kiwi.
01:09I searched up Kiwi on Instagram,
01:11and random enough, it popped up another Kiwi
01:14that wasn't my account.
01:15And obviously, I was a little curious.
01:17I clicked on the account.
01:19We looked exactly the same.
01:21I get an Instagram DM one day, and he says,
01:24yo, you are my doppelganger.
01:26And I was like,
01:27dang, this dude does really look like me.
01:29I was like, someone's stealing my swagger here.
01:32And I was like, mom, there's this dude.
01:34His name's Kiwi.
01:35He looks a lot like me.
01:36She was like, that is insane.
01:39That has to be, that has to be your brother.
01:41So I texted him.
01:42I was like, hey, are you adopted?
01:44I know this is a really weird question,
01:46but I just, I just need to know.
01:47He's like, yeah, I am.
01:49I get the notification from him saying,
01:52are you adopted?
01:53And the moment that I saw that message,
01:55I was like, no way.
01:57We FaceTimed each other.
01:58The moment that we confirmed
02:00that both of our birth parents were the same,
02:01we immediately started jumping.
02:04Oh my God.
02:08Yo, that's insane,
02:10because I've had him added on Instagram
02:12or Snapchat for like pretty much over a year.
02:16Pretty much, pretty much a year.
02:18That's crazy.
02:18And I remember talking at the beginning.
02:20I was like, yo, we're both in Kiwi.
02:22We're both looking like this insane.
02:24And you guys think, yeah.
02:26I just never thought about it.
02:27Yeah.
02:28We're in disbelief.
02:29Going up to his door, I was driving.
02:31I was like, what if he's like this?
02:34What if he's like that?
02:34I was thinking a little bit of like, oh, this is crazy.
02:39This is actually happening,
02:40because it just came up all of a sudden on these.
02:43What the heck?
02:44When he opened the door and I saw him,
02:46I was like, man, I knew it.
02:48Like, I knew he had to be my brother right then and there.
02:53What's up, baby?
02:56What's up, baby?
02:57What's up, baby?
02:57Getting to like hug a person and know a person
03:00that was actually of like my blood
03:02was a completely different feeling.
03:05I instantly connected with this guy.
03:07The moment I met him, I just loved him to death.
03:10Our moms put us together and told us to dance.
03:13And like we danced the exact same and to fix our hair,
03:18weirdly, because we both have nice hair, I guess.
03:21And we both like fix our hair the exact same.
03:24We kept saying things at the same time.
03:26We kept reacting the same way.
03:28And like literally, like I said, long lost twin, man.
03:32I just found a forever person
03:35that I'm going to be able to bond with
03:36for the rest of my life.
03:37There is not a lot of people that can relate to my story,
03:40me and Kyave's story.
03:41And that is so special.
03:43It is seriously a feeling that I can't even like put words to.

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