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Article: TWINS NEED FAMILY SUPPORT TO BUILD INDIVIDUALITY
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2006
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First there was comedy. "I think I'm seeing double." Then
comparisons. "Your face is fatter." "Your ears stick out more." And
questions. "Do you ever wake up and think you're the other one?"
Being a twin is a strange, strange thing.
As very young children, my twin sister and I often cried if we
were not in a room together. Relatives later claimed that we talked
to each other in gibberish. By 4 or 5, this had subsided.
Then we attempted to form our own identities. While my twin
excelled in algebra in high school, I failed. She wrote; I put down
the pen. At 17, she moved 400 miles away to pursue a college
scholarship. Yet when we met at our mother's for Christmas that year,