some randomness...

call it telepathy, extrasensory perception, e.s.p....call it whatever you want, but i do know that what sometimes happens between my twin and i is really quite "humorous." in all my years growing up, time and time again when it was discovered by others that i was a twin and right after they asked me if i was identical, the next questions would be... "if she's in pain do you feel it? can you tell when she has a bad day?" and blah, blah, blah. i've never really felt i had an appropriate answer. mostly because i'm not sure if what i feel with her is abnormal. i've always been a twin...so what's so abnormal about what she and i experience together? i don't know any different. well, it hasn't been until she's moved far away that these "moments" are a little more obvious.

like for instance, last year on our birthday she calls me up and tells me about this great album she had just purchased of which was released almost 5 years ago. and yet, I had purchased the same album earlier that day. or when i called her up last week and i hear her in her car listening to the same song she and i had both burned a copy of....again....unknown artist of which she and i had never discussed before. but most notably (and probably the reason for this post) is what happened a couple saturdays ago. i sit down to do a little catching up on my oprah watching and i begin an episode (which aired weeks ago) only to discover that an old boyfriend of my sister's is on the show. i had to call her. without giving her a chance to say hello, i blurt out, 'you are going to die!' she then responds, "oh don't worry, i'm already dying because i'm watching oprah and "mr. x" is on." i started laughing and screaming hysterically. i finally get a chance to tell her that is the exact reason i was calling. turns out that she and i are watching the same episode, from days earlier and with a 30 second time delay....

so there you have it. there's my answer. we may never feel a toothache when the other visits the dentist, and i'm sure it's safe to say my twin never felt any such thing when I gave birth. and honestly, some of the times we just don't understand each other. but every once in a while, we are reminded that we are a lot more alike then we probably give ourselves credit for.


that was then...


this is now...