The "twin mistique". Is there such a thing? I think so, although I certainly can't explain it. There is definitely a bond that's unlike any other and you just know it's there. I can't feel it every time she stubs her toe and she can't feel it when I hit my thumb with a hammer, but we can feel emotional pain for the other one.
I have read where one twin feels pain miles away when the other gets hurt. I'm not going to dispute it but it has never happened to us. She didn't feel it when I was in the hospital having my appendix out, but maybe that was because she was feeling her own pain one floor up where she was giving birth to her first child. At least we got to see each other in the hospital.
There were a couple of times that she had to go to the hospital and I couldn't see her. The first time she swallowed a needle. I'm not going to tell how she did it because I don't want anyone to try it, but it was in the "Believe It or Not" section of the newspaper. She had to have abdominal surgery to remove it and I couldn't see her until she came home and it just about killed me. They were very strict about child visitors in those days.
The second time was when she got scarlet fever and had to go to the hospital. Back then they had hospitals for contagious diseases and I couldn't visit her then either, so I stood down on the ground and waved to her and cried. Of course they quarantined our house, and as it turned out the other 4 children including me, all caught it anyway and I couldn't figure out why she couldn't come home. I still can't.
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