My New Obsession

"Being an identical twin - I can't speak for fraternals - is intense. It's all the cliches: feeling like you have an unwavering partner in life, knowing exactly what another person feels, wanting to tell her a story before anyone else, confiding with unrestrained - sometimes shocking - candor, valuing her opinion above anyone else's, taking on someone else's pain to the point of vicarious depression, being incapacitated by a minor dispute." - Abigail Pogrebin, One and The Same

     I'm definitely becoming obsessed with this. I've gone through phases where I've wanted to know everything there is to know about twins. I think I've always been trying to answer questions about Melissa and myself. Recently I found myself on StumbleUpon and I put "twins" into the stumble thing, just for fun. I stumbled across the interview on NPR with Abigail Pogrebin and that was the start. When I told Melissa about it, the first thing she said was "I think that's the book you wanted before." She was absolutely right. I did want this book when it first came out. But it was too expensive and I decided that I didn't need it at the time. Perhaps it is fate that I have come across it again after forgetting all about it before. Maybe I will be able to take more from it now than I would have two years ago. I just can't help but think that I came across this at just the right time. I have a lot of questions and I'm hoping this book can either answer them or put me on the right path to answering them myself. Definitely my new life consuming interest.