Oh yes. You have mentioned before that you had twins but I did not know you were a twin.
The twin thing must be genetic to some extent I assume.
Did your twins play any tricks on you? Do you have any fun stories you can share?
I'm a fraternal twin, as are my sons, so no twin-type tricks could be played on those who knew them, but they did impersonate each other on the phone sometimes, to the other's dismay but the hilarity to the rest of the family. It was stuff like enthusiastically volunteering for an early morning of clean-up at church, but in the other's name, then saying, "Ask my brother if he can come, too? I would but I already know he can't make it. He's got group plans to work on a huge project at school. But I'll be there for sure. You can count on me." The other twin would be fuming while the rest of us were laughing. They played equal numbers of pranks of this sort on each other so no harm, no foul. They're very close to this day.
Because my sons didn't necessarily censor their conversation when I picked them up from school I had a unexpected window into the minds of teenage boys. While driving them around I learned what teenage boys think about teenage girls - especially the "mean girls." I was surprised at how canny and resentful boys truly are when some girls cruelly wield power over other girls or boys. Teenage girls would be stunned at the derisive way they and their friends talked about those girls who led on and then quite publicly trampled the heart of some unattractive, but deeply smitten boy. Also the way they admired the girls who gently and privately let down boys who were crushing on them, but the feelings weren't mutual.
Trust me, it was an education.
One more twin thing - a dear friend's mother was half of a set of identical twins. The women married brothers and lived next door to one another for the rest of their lives. Biologically the wild and crazy gang of cousins were half-siblings, and lived in each others' houses as much as their own. Sad note - my friend's aunt developed Alzheimer's and his mother therefore could read the writing on the wall when she started to show the same symptoms. They both died as a result of that terrible disease.
p.s. Twins are defined as two babies carried in the same pregnancy. They can be typical identical (somewhat rare), mirror image (very rare), half-identical (very, very rare) or fraternal (most common, particularly now with fertility drugs and procedures).
