Monday, Jul. 03, 2006 - 5:57 p.m.

To me (and my brother) and Flatmate A (and her sister) and Spaceboy (and his sister). That's waaay too many twins in one small life isn't it?

I can tell you what it�s like to be a twin as much as you can tell me what it�s like to not have shared a womb. But the last six months have been the most infested with twins my life has ever been. We don�t have much to say about it to each other, but when it�s the three of us together we do have a laugh about Dumb Stuff People have said (Are you and your brother identical? think about it, for just a moment) and a quiet acknowledgement of the sense of our close sibling as being something special, something we alone have.

In the culture that Spaceboy�s family are from twins are seen as good luck. I suspect in white working class culture (i.e. where I done come from) it�s seen as a pain in the arse; two bloody mouths to feed for your trouble.

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