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Article: One too many.(brother who killed twin)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
- Author:
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JEFF AND GREG SHARED A WOMB. SHARED THE SAME LIFE. SHARED LIFE. AND THEN ONE DAY, THIRTY-SIX YEARS LATER, ONE TWIN KILLED THE OTHER.
Imagine that you know, before you're even born, that all love is based on language. Imagine that you know that sound is love's soul, and voice its bones, and words its skin. Imagine you know that love, like language, is a body--that they are in fact the same body. One body. Yours.
Imagine, then, that you are born into another body. A body with the same skin as yours, the same bones, the same soul; the same words, the same voice, the same sound.
Imagine that you are born a twin.
Imagine opening your mouth ...