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O N E S A M E AND THE also by abigail pogrebin Stars of David O N E S A M E AND THE My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular A B I G A I L P O G R E B I N •• doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland Copyright © 2009by Abigail Pogrebin All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.doubleday.com doubledayand the DD colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. “Love Radiates Around” by Mark Johnson © 1985 New Media Music, Inc./Cold Weather Music. All rights for the world controlled by New Media Music, Inc. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Pogrebin, Abigail. One and the same : my life as an identical twin and what I’ve learned about everyone’s struggle to be singular / Abigail Pogrebin. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Twins—Psychology. 2. Twins—Biography. I. Title. BF723.T9.P64 2009 155.44'4—dc22 2009011195 ISBN 978-0-385-52156-7 printed in the united states of america 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 first edition For Robin, for everything •• I wouldn’t be myselfwithout her. —allen shawn, WISH I COULD BE THERE •• CONTENTS •• introduction 1 1 the mecca: twinsburg 13 2 embryo to end zone: tiki and ronde barber 31 3 identicals: a love story 47 4 you deplete me: competition 81 5 risky business: the shoals of birthing twins 105 6 twin shock 101 122 7 making the break: separation 146 8 and then there was one 169 9 splitting the difference: when identical twins differ 195 10 cruel dna: the lords 219 11 me and my shadow: exploring doubleness 237 12 but for her 245 epilogue 254 acknowledgments 259 notes 261 bibliography 273
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