Twin-isms

The most asked question I get when people discover I am twin is "what is it like to be a twin".
I try not to respond with too much sarcasm, but lets stop and think about this... I don't know what it is like to NOT be one, so I usually reply with "I don't know? What is it like to not be one?" They usually catch on with that comment.
Twins are a wonder and exciting to people. We are identical so we look alike and sound alike. To this day there are people who take second glances and we don't even wear our hair the same length or even color,our body types are different and our style of dress are different. Growing up our friends and family were confused easily and we had a lot of nicknames such as twinie so that they did not look stupid because they didn't know which one they were talking to or looking at. We have switched classes on April Fools day, we were a hit as flower girls at everyone's weddings and were participants in look alike contests. Best one of all is to be the poster child for your twin when the other wanders off in a public place and you are the best thing to what she is wearing and looks like.
Pro's to being a twin: you always have someone to go with you on that first day of school, someone to share that secret with, and double the amount of friends, but nothing replaces the best friend you had since you were born.
Con's are it is sometimes hard to gain your own individuality, as we are older this has definitely become easier. On that same note, as we have gotten older we have grown apart... I think that in our hearts we think of the other daily, but we have our own families and live a distance apart.

The Best part of being a twin is the moments you only hear about, and you can be a skeptic or think I am full of it, that is your right, but we have a connection and that has been proven to us on some occasions. In kindergarten I was foolishly dancing on the dinner table(parents obviously not in the room) I fell off and became temporarily blinded, that same year my twin fell off her bike and too became temporarily blinded. Once in the Jr. High I was sitting in Science class with a pencil in my hand and my thumb started to hurt, so much that I was crying. There was nothing wrong with me. My sister had shop class that same period and had almost cut off her thumb (same thumb as mine that was hurting). I found out after class what had happened.
High School I was a terror and stayed out all night one night, not calling or letting my parents know where I was out, my twin advised my parents that I was alright because she could sense that I was. Four years ago my twin sister was pregnant with her first child, one day while we were in the mall together my stomach started to ache, I looked at her and she was having a contraction those contractions continued for a while ( I know I felt them). Just this year, I was going thru a hard time and she sent me an email that meant the world to me, the catch to that one was it was a letter she wrote over a year ago and never sent and happened to pull it out and send it to me, just because.

If some how there was a choice to either be or not to be, I would still be a twin. I would share the clothes, the room and the toys. To my other half, I love this, this is to us and almost 29 years together, you couldn't get rid of me in the womb and you can't get rid of me now :) Love ya!