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Who’s Who? Foolproof strategies for telling identical twins apart

By Alice M Vollmar “I burst into tears when I thought I was holding one baby and then discovered that I was holding the other,” recalled Marlene Flanders. “I said to myself, ‘I’m their mother, and I can’t even tell…

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Where Have All My Friendships Gone?

By Kitty Just Calling old friends! Calling old friends! Come out…Come out, wherever you are! As the mother of two singletons and 1-year-old twin boys, I created this slight “fun” variation on an old children’s game to make a serious…

Am I an I or a We: Helping twins to be individuals

I am an identical twin. When I talk about my history prior to the time I went off to college, I find myself using the pronoun “we.” After college, I use the pronoun “I.” The question of individual identity is…