Two peas in a pod
by Chris Rose
They even dressed us the same.
My mother said that it was easier for her just to buy two of
everything.
Sometimes it was the same clothes but in different colours – a red top for me, and a
yellow one for my sister, for...
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Two peas in a pod
by Chris Rose
They even dressed us the same.
My mother said that it was easier for her just to buy two of
everything.
Sometimes it was the same clothes but in different colours – a red top for me, and a
yellow one for my sister, for example.
When they did that we swapped the clothes so that they
still couldn’t tell us apart.
Not even our parents could tell us apart.
Our schoolteachers never
could.
And then there were our names.
It was crazy - they called us Edie and Evie! Even our names
were almost identical.
Two peas in a pod, they called us.
Two drops of water.
Sometimes we couldn’t hardly tell ourselves from each other.
At least when we were small.
But
as we grew up things began to change.
Everybody thinks identical twins are, well, identical.
But if you’re a twin you’ll know that it’s
not true.
Physically, yes, we were almost identical.
I say almost, because there was the birthmark.
My sister has a very small brown spot on her left shoulder.
I do
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