There was (and is) a great article in the New Yorker by Lawrence Wright about identical twins. How similar they are.
One passage that I remember to this day:
It was then that Bouchard read a newspaper story about Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, identical twins who had been separated at birth and reunited thirty-nine years later.
Each of the Jim twins, as they were called, was six feet tall and weighed a hundred and eighty pounds; they looked as much alike as any other identical pair. At their reunion, they discovered that each had been married twice, first to a woman named Linda and then to a woman named Betty. Jim Lewis had named his firstborn child James Alan, and Jim Springer had named his James Allen. In childhood each twin had owned a dog named Toy. They had enjoyed family vacations on the same beach in Florida and had worked part time in law enforcement. They shared a taste for Miller Lite beer and Salem cigarettes.
That passage isn’t as great as this video. But it’s close.
Both are good.
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