Coincidence and Identical Twins
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On 19 August 1939 twin boys were born in Piqua, Ohio, USA. One was adopted by the Springer family in Dayton, Ohio, who thought the brother had died. The named their baby James. The second child was adopted by the Lewis family of Lima, Ohio,and they too believed that the twin was dead. By coincidence Baby Lewis was also called James.
Six year later Jess and Lucille Lewis accidentally found out that their adopted son's brother was alive. Then in January 1979 their son James Lewis began looking for his twin, and after only a few weeks the two brother were reunited -- at the age of 39.
The Jims were monozygotic, or identical, twins -- created from the same single fertilised ovum that split in two, and sharing the same placenta in the uterus. It is hardly surprising that genetic make-up should produce similarities beyond physical appearance. But the coincidences in the Jims' lives were astonishing.
The twins had first wives called Linda, then they divorced and both married women called Betty. Lewis named his first son James Alan; Springer's was James Allan. Both had dogs answering to Toy. The two men had worked as gas station attendants and for the same hamburger chain. The twins drove the same type of car, and smoked the same cigarette and drank the same beer brands. They had regularly taken their annual vacation at the same resort in Florida. The both disliked baseball but enjoyed stock-car racing and woodwork. Both gained and lost our kilograms at the same age, bit their fingermails compulsively and had experienced a minor heart attack. And the Jims had bothe suffered haemorrhoids and migraines.
Thomas Bouchard, professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, recorded the similarities of the Jim twins and studied the lives of other identical twins who had been separated at birth. An English pair, Bridget Harrison and Dorothy Lowe, born in 1943, met for the first time in 1979. The lives of the twins matched in various ways. Bridget's son, for instance was named Andrew Richard, and Dorothy's son Richard Andrew. Then in 1962 they had both kept diaries for only one year in books of the same make and colour. The days they filled in and those they left blank corresponded exactly.
Professor Bouchard explored the role of genetic inheritance as opposed to environmental factors. But his findings and other examples of coincidence, such as the synchronicity of pain at a great distance or, in rare cases, death, sugges there are psychic connections between idential twins.
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I can only remember during our younger days my twin brother and i share the same mutual that once we look at each other we both knew whats the one will thinking...
Everytime either one of us get injured the other one will get the same injury a few days later, for example if my twin brother step on a nail, my mom will get worried coz she knows the next one will get it soon. True enuff few days later i would somehow step on a nail and injured my foot. But through the years when we grow up, we dont share that kind of mutual and fate. Maybe coz we are unidentical twin...
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you have a twin??!!!
wow!! how cool is that
do you both share thoughts like in the movies??? -
oh... so that was ur twin brother i saw at yesterday... thought u pretend not to see me...Originally posted by erijazz:I can only remember during our younger days my twin brother and i share the same mutual that once we look at each other we both knew whats the one will thinking...
Everytime either one of us get injured the other one will get the same injury a few days later, for example if my twin brother step on a nail, my mom will get worried coz she knows the next one will get it soon. True enuff few days later i would somehow step on a nail and injured my foot. But through the years when we grow up, we dont share that kind of mutual and fate. Maybe coz we are unidentical twin... -
WahahahahahaOriginally posted by weeeeeee.....:oh... so that was ur twin brother i saw at yesterday... thought u pretend not to see me...
Next time see you on the street must make sure it's you liao..
sekali i abish your twin then jialat liao...
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Originally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:Wahahahahaha
Next time see you on the street must make sure it's you liao..
sekali i abish your twin then jialat liao...
Ai yah! I already said we r unidentical twin liao mah, muahahahaha...
And u better don't *ablish* him coz he is much more bigger in size and muscular, he used to be a bodybuilding competitor. -
Originally posted by erijazz:
Ai yah! I already said we r unidentical twin liao mah, muahahahaha...
And u better don't *ablish* him coz he is much more bigger in size and muscular, he used to be a bodybuilding competitor. -
woah~Originally posted by erijazz:he used to be a bodybuilding competitor.
then he mus have breasts tt are bigger than mine! -
i've always wanted to give birth to twin girls. thought that it's super cute to dress them alike.
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Originally posted by FireIce:woah~
then he mus have breasts tt are bigger than mine!
eerrrhhhh...
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Originally posted by jesz:i've always wanted to give birth to twin girls. thought that it's super cute to dress them alike.
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WahahahahaOriginally posted by FireIce:woah~
then he mus have breasts tt are bigger than mine!
With chest hair somemore~!
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erm...Originally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:Wahahahaha
With chest hair somemore~!
My bro dont have chest hair one, I do...
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i know this is OT but when Jess and Lucille Lewis found out that the other twin was alive 6 years after adoption at birth, didn't they do anything? then must wait until 33 years later (when they were 39) to meet up?
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BIG BIG HINT!Originally posted by erijazz:erm...
My bro dont have chest hair one, I do... -
Did anyone saw my other twin?!
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WahahahahahaOriginally posted by audlenelee:BIG BIG HINT! -
Think that the Lewises didn't want to let the Springers know of the two kids' relations to each other....hmm...maybe they wanted to keep the boy and wanted to prevent a feud to keep the twins?Originally posted by jOhO:i know this is OT but when Jess and Lucille Lewis found out that the other twin was alive 6 years after adoption at birth, didn't they do anything? then must wait until 33 years later (when they were 39) to meet up?
or did i misread something?