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An Island Publishers Newsmagazine

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BODY DOUBLE |

Continued from Page 1

remarkable similarities,
stories about twins with
psychic abilities, and stories
about twins who share dreams
and physical pains. We've all
heard such tales — they oc-
casionally make the front
pages of supermarket
tabloids. Sometimes, they
arouse curiosity about what it
would be like to be a twin.
Sometimes, they're dismissed
as urban myth.

Nobody in the Wallace fami-
ly would dismiss the idea of
soulmate twins.

Brian and Elizabeth Wallace
have four adult children.
Their sons, Grant and Scott,
are fraternal (non-identical)
twins and were born three and
a half years before Sue and
Shirley. The older twins are
described as “like night and
day in looks, ideas, attitudes,
and personalities,” but all in
the Wallace family recognize
the incredible bond between
the younger twins. It’s a bond
that Elizabeth says makes
each of her daughters “like one
half of a whole.”

“Not always, but often, if

something is wrong, the other
one of us Gdentical twins) sen-
ses it,” Sue explains.

The 20-year old remembers
that in Grade 5 — one of the
only school years when she
and Shirley were in separate
classes — she sensed, for the
first time in her life, that Shir-
ley was in pain.

“My tongue hurt. Like when
you bite it really hard, so that
your eyes water and every-
thing throbs. I went into the
school washroom and was
looking in the mirror to see if
anything was wrong with my
tongue, and Shirley came in
with blood all over her mouth.
She bit her tongue, but Z felt
it.”

A similar thing happened in
1988, when Sue had a car ac-
cident. One morning, at about
4 a.m., Shirley’s screaming
and crying woke her fiance,
who tried to calm her. Insist-
ing that something was
wrong, Shirley phoned her
parents: only a few minutes
before Shirley’s call, another
call had informed the Wal-
laces that Sue was being
taken to a hospital.

“It’s uncanny, really. They're

so much into each other’ x
minds,” says Elizabeth. “They
can finish sentences for each
other — sometimes it’s a few
words from one, then a few
words from the other. . . if you

listen to them simultaneously, .

you piece together a sentence,
then a paragraph, and a sto

That happens even when one &

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shouldn’t know what the other |

is talking about. They'll be
describing a dream, for ex-
ample.”

Such a strong sisterly bond
doesn’t only pose puzzles for a

mother; it sometimes creates {

problems for twins.

For example, the Wallace

sisters share childhood
memories but aren't always cer-
tain whether they’re recalling
real events or dreams they
shared in their sleep: as
children, they sometimes woke
up to discover they had just
finished the same dream or
nightmare. Each woman has
struggled to help her boyfriend
(and her sister’s boyfriend) cope
with her sibling relationship, a
relationship so intense that
Sue's college essay was entitled
“An Unbreakable Bond.” When

they were kids, the bond was so -

obvious that even school mates
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