The Strange Fascination With Identical Twins

Are they one in the same?

By now, 10 years on, I’m used to the question. It’s asked every time I’m out in public with my boys. This has been the case from day one, when, through bleary eyes, I carted not one but two car seats into the house, double-stroller notwithstanding.

Identical human beings — at least those who appear to look exactly the same to the…