It’s certainly not uncommon to refer to your best pal as a brother.

While they may not be blood-related, the support they have provided you over the years sees them classified in that family category.

Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane met in sixth grade and quickly became best mates.

Growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii, the pair played high-school football together.

Their strong bond continued after they fished education, to the point where they were Uncle Walter and Uncle Alan to each other’s kids, as per Reader’s Digest.

Both of them had one very strong similarity: they were both put up for adoption when they were younger and had no idea about parts of their biological family.

Walter, a retired math and physical education teacher, knew that he had a complicated family tree.

His mother had been young when she had him during World War II, and it was concluded that she couldn’t raise him on his own.

So, the family decided that his grandmother was to act as his mother and his biological mother was his sister.

You can read more about this story in an article by Callum Jones published in the unilad.com web site at: https://bit.ly/3VUjPfq.