LJI friends & rivals: topic 7

[noodledays]

By some marvelous quirk of the wheels that spin the world, where there would usually have been one baby, there ended up being two identical beings. For whatever reasons (including the ones I’m conscious of which are being born much smaller and second), I’ve always tended to see myself as the copy of the original; I mean, first there was just one,

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[noodledays]

ha, that was pretty clever of them. :D

[leni_ba]

This is a beautiful insight into something only a few get to experience. Thanks for sharing!

[northernwalker]

I really liked this!

[favoritebean]

This was amazing to read about. I've always suspected that there might be more to the nature of identical twins.

[wicked_jester]

Intriguing entry. I honestly didn't know twins could share sensations to that extent, to the point of feeling the other's pain as if it's their own.

Oh, I was wondering how long did your family live in Hawaii, and what brought you there? My friend/ex-roommate is stationed at Pearl Harbor.

[noodledays]

we lived there for the better part of a year, when my dad was there to work on a big project. my mom was like, "no way are you going to Hawaii for ___* months without taking your family!"

*the specific length was TBD depending on how long they needed him