The Twins
The Twins When I was a child, I was known as one of “the twins.” I am a twin. This was the most important fact of my childhood. My brother Jerry and I were same sex twins and we looked identical to everyone. Still being identical was fraught. The party line was that we were not identical. My mother explained this by explaining the when we were born, there were two placenta. This fact was huge in the world of my child raising; it reflected my mother’s status as a nurse. So despite the many signs of our being identical, we accepted the statements of my mother, that held doubt about our status. Still we were very much alike. More so than any other fraternal twins that I knew or that I learned about. We appeared alike to everyone, even a dachshund that lived next door to my wife and I when we lived in Dayton, Ohio - we lived there from 1978-1981. This annoying dog would bark incessantly at all strangers, yet when my brother visited us from New Jersey, he was quiet. At the