Woman gets the shock of her life

A woman in search of her long-lost mother
discovered she had married her own brother.
Brazilian Adriana, 39, and her husband
Leandro, 37, have
been together for 7 years and have a six-
year-old daughter.
The couple, who refused to reveal their
surnames, spent their lives trying to find their
respective mothers, who were both called Maria,
and had both abandoned their children when
they were still babies.
But neither could have imagined that the
women they had both been searching for could
have been the same person. Continue...
Adriana, a cosmetics saleswoman, hadn't seen
her estranged mother since she was one year
old, leaving her to be raised by the her father.
Meanwhile, truck driver Leandro, who was
brought up by his stepmother, knew his mother
had also abandoned him in his hometown of
Sao Paulo when he was eight years old.
While Leandro remained in the city, Adriana
left their hometown to work as a housemaid,
married for 15 years and had three children.
The pair met for the first time ten years ago
after Adriana's marriage broke down and she
returned to Sao Paulo. They soon fell in love
and moved in together.
Unable to give up the search for her mother,
Adriana contacted a radio station in the city
to ask for help.
This week the two were reunited live on air.
But at the end of the interview on Radio
Globo's The Time Is Now programme, which
specializes in finding lost relatives, the mother
revealed she also had a son who didn't know
her called Leandro.
Upon realizing her husband is also her brother,
an emotional Adriana said: "I don't believe
that you're telling me this. Leandro is my
husband. Now I'm scared to go home and find
out that Leandro doesn't want me anymore. I
love him so much."
Adriana and Leandro told Radio Globo that
they would stay together, despite the bombshell
that they are actually brother and sister.
Adriana said: "Only death is going to separate
us. All this happened because God wanted it to
happen. Of course it would have been different
if we had known all this before, but we didn't
and we fell in love. We thought it was funny
that both our mothers had the same name, but
it is a common name so we just thought it was a
coincidence.
"At first we were really knocked by it all, but
we had a family meeting and told everyone
that we are going to stay husband and wife,
whatever anyone might think. We have so many
plans together. Nothing is going to break us up.
Nothing."
The couple, who said they didn't blame their
mother for leaving them, have spoken with her
a number of times and plan to meet up soon.