Da Curious

i watched mtv true life i'm an identical twin the other night. true i'm not an identical twin but i found some of the topics they discussed pretty interesting. apparently there's this annual "twinfest" held in ohio where twins mostly identical ones go. to do what i'm not quite sure. from what i could gather it was mainly to find other twins to hook up with which is essentially what these two twin sisters did. with no luck i might add. who knew desperate could come across so well on television. it almost seemed like fat camp but with no goal. at least at fat camp you know you're there to lose weight. but at twinfest? what's there to do besides look at other twins and go wow they look alike too! i remember i told this girl when we first met on love boat that i had a twin brother and from then on everytime i talked to her she was like "georgie! you have to go to twinfest!" apparently my saying no over and over hasn't registered just yet since it's still mentioned to me to this day.

mtv profiled another set of twin boys who have basically lived together all throughout their school years until doomsday came. college. one was off to pepperdine and another off to city college. it was meant to be the separating of the ways. but lo and behold after a short three or four months at pepperdine, the other twin moved home. to live with his brother for another four years and to join him at city college. he said he didn't feel "whole" being by himself and that he didn't feel as if he was an individual.

now this i just couldn't relate to. i don't think when jon went off to michigan i felt like i would wither away and die. but then of course i did go visit him every year for a month at a time to the point where his friends were like you're back again? but that's just because i was so much cuter and cooler that all of his friends wanted me back. all throughout our lives we were always known as jon and georgette. or georgette and jon i'd like to call us. and lucky for me, my parents gave me the unique name so when jon would introduce himself and receive a blank look he could always fall back on you know...jon and georgette? then the lightbulb would click.

even when we went off to college a lot of my friends would be curious to meet him because you know we're twins. and once when he did finally go out with all of us in downtown san diego he was known as george's brother. ha. love it. having a twin though really does have its advantages. some of my friends can't fathom the fact that yes we drink together. or i drink and he watches. or that yes we go clubbing together and even dance in the same circle! *gasp* although when we were in high school i believe we had something like five sets of fraternal twins in our grade. that was pretty nuts. luckily we weren't the nerdiest ones. at least i don't think so anyways.

at least when girls were interested in jon they would be extra nice to me. and there's more than you might think. the family advantage you know. but i suppose all siblings get that type of treatment regardless of if you're a twin or not.