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Jessica Gomes and Aaron Bairos were born to be together.“They’re soul mates. They took their first breaths in the same hospital,” said family friend Dolores Milho, owner of New York Lace in Taunton.The Taunton Gazette reports Gomes and Bairos, who were married Sept. 9, were born on the same day in the same place -- Morton Hospital in Taunton.The birth announcements for Saturday, April 28, 1990, list just two babies born at Morton, a girl to Bradford and Maria Gomes and a boy to Ernesto and Idelta Bairos.Twenty-seven years later, that same boy and girl were again listed side-by-side, but this time on a save-the-date wedding announcement.And on Saturday, Sept. 9, Jessica Gomes and Aaron Bairos made it official, exchanging vows at Holy Family Church in East Taunton.“I think it’s awesome. It’s a pretty rare thing,” said Jessica, a nurse practitioner in Marion.“I believe in fate and I think that’s part of it,” Jessica said.Despite being born under the same star, Jessica and Aaron did not grow up together.It wasn’t until they met through mutual friends in high school that these nursery buddies were finally re-united.Jessica, who grew up in Raynham until her family moved to Taunton when she was about 10, attended Coyle & Cassidy High School, while Aaron, a Taunton native who works in sales and marketing in Hopkinton, attended Taunton High.“Pretty early on we figured it out,” Jessica said.It helped that they took a driver's education class together. There was the proof right there on their learner's permits – the same birth date.“We told our parents and they even remembered having said 'hi' to each other at the hospital,” Jessica said.It’s possible there is even a photograph of the two newborns at Morton.Jessica’s parents have a picture of her in the nursery with a mystery baby in the background. It could well be Aaron, but his face is too blurry to be sure it’s him, Jessica said.“We’ve been trying to figure that out for years. We know it’s a boy because he’s wearing a blue hat,” Jessica said.Jessica said when she and Aaron met, it was pretty much love at first sight – well, technically second sight if you count that “first date” in the nursery. When they were teenagers, Aaron would call her almost every night after school, Jessica said.“I knew pretty early that he was different,” Jessica said.Jessica said she is the fifth generation in her family to be married at Holy Family Church in East Taunton.Jessica’s family actually attends St. Ann’s in Raynham, but her grandmother attends Holy Family and Jessica wanted to maintain the tradition, she said.Besides Holy Family also happens to be Aaron’s family’s parish – making it an even more auspicious choice.In addition to Jessica and her mother Maria Gomes, Maria’s mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Maria Isabel Correia were all married at Holy Family going all the way back to 1911.Jessica said it meant a lot to her to be part of that unbroken chain.“And they were all successful, healthy marriages,” Jessica said.As to being born on the same day in the same hospital, Aaron said, “I think it’s a pretty cool coincidence. Maybe it was fate.”One thing’s for sure. They’ll never forget each other’s birthdays.“We’d be in big trouble if that happened,” Jessica joked.